[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 115 (Thursday, September 4, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H6803]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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  PASS H.R. 367 AND PUT SOME CONTROLS ON THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

  (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 IRS says, ``Members are picking on 
us.'' Poor, poor IRS; do I hear violins? How about a pity party? Let us 
tell it like it is:
  When an $80,000 disagreement turns into $330,000 in penalties and 
fines in 3 short years, when taxpayers commit suicide, when taxpayers 
are told to their face that they just died, when taxpayers, in fact, 
are targeted for audits because they politically oppose the IRS, we are 
not picking on the IRS, we are telling the truth.
  Mr. Speaker, the further truth is, when the IRS makes Vito Corleone 
look like a Boy Scout, something is very wrong.
  Shame IRS, shame. They should hide their two faces. It is time for 
the Congress, like the people, to be taxed off, and pass H.R. 367 and 
put some controls on the executive branch and the Internal Rectum 
Service.

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