[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 25 (Wednesday, March 11, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H1024-H1025]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               CONGRESS MUST STEP IN AND SOLVE IRS ABUSE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Imagine this, Mr. Speaker. The IRS kicks down your 
door without a warrant and takes everything. Then the IRS, without a 
warrant, raids your partner's home. They arrest him at gunpoint in 
front of his small children and take everything. Then the IRS goes to 
your business, they question your customers, they threaten your 
employees, they take everything that is not nailed down.
  Sound incredible? Not for the IRS. It was later ruled that the IRS 
was guilty, guilty, guilty. Guilty of assault, guilty of illegal search 
and seizure and guilty of false imprisonment.
  Beam me up, Congress. When the IRS starts acting like Nazis, that is 
right, listen to the word, Nazis, Congress must step in and Congress 
must solve this dilemma for the American people.
  I am asking you to cosponsor H.R. 3277, my bill that will stop 
illegal searches and illegal seizures.

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