[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 148 (Wednesday, October 27, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H10865]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


              BRING OLD RELIABLE BACK TO ITS PROPER THRONE

  (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, a 1992 law designed to save water said 
that the old standard 3\1/2\ gallon toilet must be replaced with a 1\1/
2\ gallon streamlined job. It sounds good, but Americans have been 
flushing away ever since. It has gotten so bad there is now a black 
market on old reliables. It is no joke. Americans are getting potty 
fatigue flushing their own toilet.
  If that is not enough, Members of the other side, to squeeze your 
Charmin, if you get caught flushing an old reliable in your own home, 
it is a $2,500 fine.
  Beam me up here. I say the nincompoop over at EPA who suggested this 
policy should go to a proctologist for a brain scan. Flush this.
  I yield back all the constipation over this issue and urge us to 
bring old reliable back to its appropriate throne.

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