[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3809]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             AMERICANS ARE FED UP WITH FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, in Boston for the last 14 days the 
Sweeney family has literally barricaded their property, fighting the 
Federal Government who they say is trying to take their home. Now, I do 
not know who is right or wrong in this case, but one thing is for sure. 
Many American people are fed up with fat cat government bureaucrats.
  Open your eyes, Congress. EPA, IRS, FBI, FDIC, ATF, intimidation, 
liens and seizures, technicalities, regulations, on and on, and every 
single day more messages and signals keep coming to Washington; and no 
one here seems to be listening.
  Mr. Speaker, it is not just Texas and Idaho, now it is Michigan, New 
York, and even the wealthy suburbs of Boston. I say, Mr. Speaker, what 
is next? Maybe another Tea Party? Do not be surprised when a nation 
that forgets their history is many times apt to revisit it.

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