[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 154 (Thursday, November 4, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H11484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        IT IS TIME CONGRESS WRITES THE LAWS, NOT NEW YORK JUDGES

  (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, judges in New York have ruled that Mayor 
Giuliani shall give $7.2 million to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, even 
though their exhibit is offensive. I will say it is offensive, a 
portrait of the Virgin Mary splattered with elephant dung.
  If that is not bad enough, now taxpayers have to subsidize it. 
Unbelievable, Mr. Speaker. In the name of art and freedom of 
expression, these stumbling, bumbling, fumbling judges in New York have 
institutionalized perversion.
  The museum may have the right to show it, but by God, the taxpayers 
should not be compelled to fund it. It is time that Congress starts 
writing laws, not these judges. I yield back the stupidity, absolute 
stupidity and perversion, of the decision of these judges in New York.

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