[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 127 (Monday, September 27, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H8668]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               GIULIANI CUTS FUNDS TO BROOKLYN ART MUSEUM

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, I agree with New York Mayor Giuliani 
for cutting funds to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Their latest show 
features the bust of a man frozen in his own blood, a small pig sliced 
in half and preserved in a bottle of formaldehyde, and a portrait of 
the Virgin Mary splattered with elephant feces. Art, Madam Speaker? My 
ascot.
  Let us tell it like it is. The truth is the art world has gone from 
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel to Lorena Bobbit's pristine scalpel. Beam 
me up.
  I yield back the trash, not treasures, of the Brooklyn Museum of 
Disgusting Art.

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