[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 138 (Tuesday, September 29, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H10002]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         DANCING WITH THE CZARS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, we have 44 czars in America and the 
dance card keeps growing. The new czar for the day is the safe schools 
czar.
  Add that to the Afghanistan-Pakistan czar, the AIDS czar, auto 
recovery czar, behavioral science czar, bailout czar, border czar, car 
czar, climate change czar, copyright czar, counterterrorism czar, 
cybersecurity czar, diversity czar, disinformation czar, two economic 
czars, an education czar, energy czar, food czar, government 
performance czar, Great Lakes czar, Gitmo closure czar, health care 
czar, info tech czar, intelligence czar, Latin American czar, Mideast 
peace czar, Mideast policy czar, pay czar, regulatory czar, religion or 
God czar, science czar, stimulus czar, Sudan czar, TARP czar, 
technology czar, trade czar, urban affairs czar, war czar, water czar, 
weapons czar. And now we have a safe schools czar.
  Who are these people, and what do they do? Is this a shadow 
government?
  Since we continue to dance with the czars, it would be nice to know 
who brought us to the dance.
  And that's just the way it is.

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