[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 85 (Thursday, June 29, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H5440]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           ``ROGUE STATES'' NOW CALLED ``STATES OF CONCERN''

  (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, I have heard it all. The State Department 
is doing away with the term ``rogue states'' for Libya and Iran. They 
are now called ``states of concern''.
  Now if that is not enough to confuse Henny Youngman, a State 
Department spokesman said, and I quote, ``If these states of concern 
continue to be of concern because they have no concern about the 
concerns that concern America, then we are prepared to go beyond 
concern.''
  Beam me up. These double-speaking, bric-a-bracking, ratch-a-
fratching, pantaloonicists need their brain examined by a concerned 
proctologist.
  I yield back the concerns for any common sense left at the State 
Department.

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