[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 62 (Tuesday, May 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4440]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 WHAT NEXT? AID FOR DEPENDENT COWBIRDS?

  (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, even on tax freedom day it never ends. 
Government bureaucrats maintain that California cowbirds lay their eggs 
in the nest of California gnat catchers, forcing the gnat catcher to 
raise the little cowbirds. Now, since the gnat catcher is on the 
endangered species list, the bureaucrats have decided to gas the 
cowbirds.
  Now, if this is not enough to ruffle our tarfeathers here, my 
colleagues, they will spend $67 million to kill California cowbirds.
  What is next folks?
  A Government grant for cowbirds to lobby Bruce Babbitt?
  Aid for dependent cowbirds?
  Tax credits to adopt the California cowbirds?
  Is it any wonder we have a $5 trillion debt?
  I submit these are not normal Government bureaucrats. These are 
turkeys. Anybody who would spend $67 million to help one endangered 
species, a gnat catcher, and make another species, a cowbird, an 
endangered species, needs a proctologist, not a psychiatrist.

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