[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 26160]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  TIME TO CERTIFY GEORGE W. BUSH AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 
                                 STATES

  (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, Josef Stalin once said: Those who cast 
the ballots decide nothing; those who count the ballots decide 
everything.
  How true it is. The wrinkled, dimpled, even pregnant chads have been 
counted several times. The Florida Supreme Court went beyond its bounds 
in changing the intent of Florida law.
  It is time for the courts and the lawyers to get out of the way and 
to certify George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States of 
America.
  Enough is enough. The division and stratification must stop. I yield 
back the need to begin a transition to a George W. Bush administration.

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