[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 128 (Wednesday, September 23, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8463]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    THE HEAVY HAND OF BIG GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. NORWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. Speaker, first, it was the IRS. Now, if we can 
believe it, it is the United States Army Corps of Engineers: You are 
guilty until you prove yourself innocent.
  When my constituent, Pamela Ham, thought the worst was over after 
surviving a deadly tornado on Lake Thurman last May, the Corps reared 
its ugly head. Even though 4 months passed since this tornado, the 
Corps, as managers of this lake and the surrounding lands, still had 
not cleaned up the public property between the lake and Mrs. Ham's 
house, so Mrs. Ham cleaned the property herself, with her hands.
  The Corps did not like this. They retaliated, Mr. Speaker, by 
revoking Mrs. Ham's dock permit. They didn't even ask for an 
explanation; they just lowered the boom, the big, heavy hand of big 
government, on my constituent.
  I am tired of the Corps of Engineers bullying my constituents along 
the Savannah River, and I am putting them on alert. Stay tuned.

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