[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H9381]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         A NEW WAR ON TERRORISM

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, America's communities are being 
terrorized by lunatics. Our law enforcement officers are the ones who 
are on the front line trying to bring back some tranquility to 
America's public places. Our law enforcement officers today look like 
Wyatt Earp. They really do not have any more technology than Wyatt Earp 
had except they have a car instead of a horse. We could fix that.
  We have all sorts of cold war technology taxpayers have paid for that 
should be opened up to law enforcement and move out there so we fight 
crime much smarter. If we could trace everything in the world, we ought 
to be able to trace explosives, and we know how to trace explosives.
  It is outrageous that this Congress might think about going home 
before we deal with this issue. One of the primary reasons for the 
Congress, according to the Constitution, is to deal with the domestic 
tranquility. Let us deal with that before we adjourn. Let us open up 
that wonderful storehouse of research and development that we have paid 
for for the cold war for this new war on terrorism.

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