[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8166]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              WHITE HOUSE'S DEFENSE OF IRS IS INDEFENSIBLE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, the IRS has a quota system. The IRS 
promotes workers who bully taxpayers. The IRS targets opponents. The 
IRS literally snoops through our files. The IRS has caused Bruce Barron 
and Alex Council to actually commit suicide. And after all this, a 
spokesman says the White House will champion the cause of the IRS 
because the criticism has been blown way out of proportion. Beam me up.
  Let us tell it like it is. The White House is defending an agency 
that has become absolutely a Gestapo-type agency, un-American, out of 
control. I am totally convinced that at the White House they are out 
for soup with the group; they have gone for lunch with the bunch; and 
they must be smoking dope, so help me God.
  I yield back the balance of the atrocities of the IRS.

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