[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 96 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4920]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                LET US START CARING ABOUT AMERICAN KIDS

  (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, Mexico's top narcotics organization has 
threatened to kidnap and murder American officials. The FBI said the 
Arellanno-Felix organization, in an effort to protect their drug 
shipments on our borders, will come in America and will kill.
  Unbelievable here. America is overrun with heroin and cocaine, we 
have got kids dying in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and who cares, 
Congress? Who really cares?
  And there is now a group of people trying to take the Traficant 
language out of the defense bill that authorizes, but not mandates, the 
use of the troops on our borders.
  Are they nuts? Are they inhaling or what? Wake up, Congress. What has 
to happen? Will one of these narcotics organizations have to kidnap our 
drug czar?
  America has no program, none, zero, and our borders are wide open.
  Let us start caring for American kids.

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