[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]




                         THE ISSUE OF TERRORISM

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, this Friday Congress is scheduled to go 
into recess, but I do not think we should be recessing unless we 
address or until we address the issue of terrorism. I have to tell you 
that right now my constituents in the phone calls to my office are 
overwhelming that people are concerned and want the Congress and the 
President to get together on a bipartisan basis to address the issue.
  It is not something that is just in other countries now. Clearly, 
because of the TWA crash, because of the explosion in Atlanta at the 
Olympics, people feel, and I think rightly so, that they cannot be safe 
and that we need to address the issue of terrorism.
  Basically, the President this week convened a bipartisan leadership 
meeting to discuss the steps that are necessary to fight against 
terrorism. As was mentioned by some of the previous speakers, we do 
have certain tools at hand which we really have not used and we can use 
on the Federal basis to try to get at the problem.
  Mentioned was the expanding the power to use wire tapping, also 
certain tracers or taggants, as they are called in explosives. These 
things need to be addressed, and we have to do them before we recess.

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