[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 125 (Thursday, September 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H10330-H10331]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  TIME FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION AND LEE 
                                FRANKEL

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address theHouse for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, Florida tomato farmers have simply gone 
bankrupt. Mexican tomatoes are being dumped on our market, $2 a crate. 
It cost about $7 to produce them. Florida farmers went to the 
WhiteHouse, and then came to Congress, and everybody laughed at them. 
They filed a section 201 lawsuit under the Trade Act. The International 
Trade Commission ruled in favor of Mexico.
  The chief investigator, Lee Frankel, now works for the organization 
that imports most of the Mexican tomatoes, and is making most of the 
money on Mexican tomatoes. I say it is time for a grand jury to 
investigate the International Trade Commission and Lee Frankel, who I 
believe are lining their pockets and screwing American farmers.
  Right to the point, I would also like to suggest to somebody they 
start looking inside those tomato trucks

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down there. They would not be surprised to find out, I suspect, that 
most of the heroin and cocaine coming into this country is coming in 
produce trucks.
  Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

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