[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 64 (Friday, May 20, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]


[Congressional Record: May 20, 1994]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

 
            FAIR TREATMENT FOR THE U.S. CAPITOL POLICE FORCE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the Capitol Police are one of the finest 
police communities in the entire Nation, yet they get no respect from 
the Congress of the United States. They are paid thousands of dollars 
less than other Federal employees. Their grievances are thrown in the 
wastebasket. They say there is age discrimination, racial 
discrimination, and sexual harassment, and no one really cares. They 
believe the Speaker does not care and the leaders of the Congress do 
not care.
  In fact, it costs $50,000 just to train 1 police officer, and the 
Capitol Police are so fed up, in the last 60 days 40 Capitol Police 
officers left the force and said, ``We are sick and tired of being 
treated like second-rate citizens.'' Shame, Congress. The only time the 
Capitol Police think they are getting a fair shake is when Congress has 
a police emergency. They want us to cosponsor House Concurrent 
Resolution 84, and Congress, we deserve to at least give our Capitol 
Police some support.

                          ____________________