[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 180 (Tuesday, November 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12204]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                PUTTING FEDERAL AGENCIES IN THEIR PLACE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, the last I heard we are still a 
participatory democracy with a Constitution, with rights, and the 
Constitution is supposed to protect our citizens.
  Well, all of America has been up in arms over Waco and Ruby Ridge and 
all these Federal agencies came before the Congress and testified these 
were big mistakes, they would never let it happen again.
  Ladies and gentlemen, the FBI wants the unusual authority, expanded 
authority to simultaneously monitor 1 out of 100 calls if you happen to 
live in a high-crime area.
  Beam me up here, Madam Speaker. We have let the IRS, ATF, and FBI get 
in our kitchen. Now we are going to put them in our bedroom, in our 
businesses?
  What is going on here, Congress? Big brother is one thing. But this 
is starting to sound like the KGB.
  Do your job, Congress. The American people want you to put these 
agencies in their place.

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