[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 57 (Tuesday, May 6, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 CONGRESS SHOULD FIRE CIA AND HIRE CNN

  (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, the Senate is about to confirm another 
director of the CIA, even though America found out about the collapse 
of the Soviet Union on CNN. America learned of the fall of the Berlin 
Wall on CNN. America found out about Saddam Hussein's invasion of 
Kuwait on CNN.
  After all this, Congress keeps pouring billions of dollars into that 
big sinkhole called the Central Intelligence Agency. I say, with a 
track record like that, Congress does not need a Committee on the 
Budget; Congress needs a proctologist.
  I think the record is real clear. Congress should fire the CIA and 
hire CNN. Maybe we will learn what is happening in the world.

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