[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 18 (Tuesday, February 2, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E122]
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              WHAT WILL POSTERITY SAY ABOUT THE PETTINESS

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                          HON. MAJOR R. OWENS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 2, 1999

  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, first the impeachment debate; and now the 
trial in the Senate, have provided the American people with graphic 
examples of government descending into dangerous pettiness. The House 
Managers or prosecutors have behaved like zealous persecutors. Beyond 
Kenneth Starr's forty million dollars already spent, they propose to 
paralyze the nation's decision-making process for an indefinite time 
period. Issues such as school construction and the minimum wage 
increase will get scant attention while we drag witnesses in for more 
Peyton Place depositions. Mice minds have hijacked the government 
machinery of a great nation. The situation may be summarized in the 
following RAP poem:

                 Profile of the Persecuting Prosecutors

     Mice men gnawing
     At the Core of the Nation
     History will rate them
     The pompous petty generation
     Rodents feeding
     On the Monica sensation
     Eloquent enemies
     Of issue liberation
     Filibuster babies
     Babbling in their bubbles
     Mischievous teenie boppers
     Making monumental troubles
     Nice men guffawing
     Mice men gnawing
     Franklin's wisdom dies
     Madison closes his eyes
     Rodents raiding Hamilton
     Jumping over Jefferson
     Boasting bloody fangs
     Pompous petty generation
     Bloated on Monica sensation
     Perfumed urination
     Decorated defecation
     Mice men gnawing
     On the heart of the nation.