[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 28595]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                     THE EPA HAS GOTTEN OUT OF HAND

  (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, in 1995, the EPA came crying to Congress 
saying they needed more money to clean up our air and our water and our 
Superfund sites. Shortly after that appeal for cash, records show that 
the EPA gave a $160,000 grant to facilitate wind energy technologies in 
China. Unbelievable. While American taxpayers are busting their buns to 
pay the bill around here, the EPA gave our hard-earned taxpayer dollars 
for projects in China.
  Mr. Speaker, this is out of hand. Electric bicycle technology, wind 
energy technology, American taxpayer dollars? The EPA should be 
handcuffed. Beam me up. I yield back all the flatulence in China paid 
for by the EPA.

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