[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 99 (Wednesday, July 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H6074]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY

  (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 World Bank makes loans to communists 
with American dollars. The World Trade Organization regularly rips us 
off. The United Nations sends American troops into war. That is right. 
We are not sending the Peace Corps here, folks.
  If that is not enough to compromise your Viagra, the United Nations 
has created a world court with universal authority and jurisdiction. 
Unbelievable. What is next, a world tax? Beam me up.
  I say the Constitution of the United States should not be surrendered 
to a bunch of international bureaucrats who regularly rule against us, 
ladies and gentlemen.
  Now, I do not know about you, but I did not pledge an oath to the 
charter of the United Nations. I pledged an oath to the Constitution of 
the United States and I think the Congress of the United States should 
put its foot down before we become known as background music in some 
doctor's office. I yield back any courage we have left.

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