[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 104 (Wednesday, July 29, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H6514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       CABBAGE REGULATIONS EXCEED THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS IN WORDS

  (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 Lord's prayer is 66 words. The 
Gettysburg Address is 286 words. The Declaration of Independence is 
1,322 words. U.S. regulations on the sale of cabbage, that is right 
cabbage, is 27,000 words.
  Now that is not enough to give Hulk Hogan's dictionary a hernia. 
Check this out. Regulatory red tape in America costs taxpayers $400 
billion every year, over $4,000 each year, every year, year in, year 
out, for every family. Beam me up. With regulations like this, it is no 
wonder American jobs keep moving overseas.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to yield back all of the reg writing bureaucrats 
in Washington, D.C. that never stood in an unemployment line.

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