[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 71 (Thursday, June 9, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 9, 1994]
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             $5 MILLION FOR PALESTINIAN POLICE--BEAM ME UP

  (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, let me see if I can understand this:
  America gives Israel $3 billion a year in foreign aid. America gives 
Egypt another $2.4 billion a year in foreign aid, $5.4 billion, and 
yesterday Uncle Sam gave $5 million to pay the wages of the Palestinian 
police. Five million dollars for Palestinian police; unbelievable, 
Congress.
  We have got 25,000 murders a year in America, drive-by killings, 
cities on fire, police departments pleading for help, and Congress 
keeps giving the same old tune:
  ``We don't have any money for all these problems in America.''
  But $5 million for Palestinian police?
  Shame, Congress.
  The trouble with the Congress of the United States of America is 
Congress is spending too much time worrying about the Mideast and 
forgetting about the Midwest in America, and the South, and the North, 
and the West, and the East. I say to my colleagues, ``Beam me up. I'm 
not for one more dime going anywhere while America has problems like we 
have.''
  Think about it.

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