[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 109 (Thursday, September 7, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H6305]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  ``HEIGH-HO SILVER''--AND THE BORDER

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, Congress is back in session, and our first 
major piece of legislation, to protect horses. You see, three or four 
places in America buy old horses and sell the meat to the French, for 
goodness sake, so we are going to protect American horses.
  So we are going to protect American horses, the likes of Silver, 
Trigger and Buttercup, from the carnivorous French. This horse security 
bill will even provide a sanctuary or rest home for those old horses. 
Well, this Congress needs to be as concerned about border security as 
we are about horse security.
  We need a border security bill with no add-ons that even the Senate 
will approve. Deal with border security before we talk about the 
contentious issues of immigration and illegals in this country. Why are 
we putting horse security at the forefront and not border security?
  The American public expects and deserves better. Protecting America's 
borders should be our first priority. That needs to be our first duty. 
Stop the invasion at the border, then we can worry about the Europeans 
eating our horses, otherwise our country will ride off like the Lone 
Ranger and a ``Heigh-Ho Silver'' into the sunset of history.
  And that's just the way it is.

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