[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 71 (Friday, June 9, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H4123-H4124]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   EVENTS SURROUNDING ELIAN GONZALEZ RESEMBLE LIFE IN COMMUNIST CHINA

  (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, Elian Gonzalez watched his mother drown, 
he then clinged to a tire at sea to save his life, and after all of 
that, commandos seized him at gunpoint. If that is not enough to 
portray a gulag, Americans later gathered right here in the Capitol to 
pray for Elian and Secret Service agents in full uniforms stormed in 
and stopped their prayer service.

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  Mr. Speaker, one cannot even pray in America. Beam me up. Is this 
Communist China, or is this the United States of America?
  Now, I believe Elian should have been sent back with his dad, but do 
we have a gulag portrayed, or what? I yield back the fact that our 
founders are literally rolling over in their graves.

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