[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10198]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



   EVENTS SURROUNDING ELIAN GONZALEZ RESEMBLE LIFE IN COMMUNIST CHINA

  (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, Elian Gonzalez watched his mother drown, 
he then clinged to a tire at sea to save his life, and after all of 
that, commandos seized him at gunpoint. If that is not enough to 
portray a gulag, Americans later gathered right here in the Capitol to 
pray for Elian and Secret Service agents in full uniforms stormed in 
and stopped their prayer service.
  Mr. Speaker, one cannot even pray in America. Beam me up. Is this 
Communist China, or is this the United States of America?
  Now, I believe Elian should have been sent back with his dad, but do 
we have a gulag portrayed, or what? I yield back the fact that our 
founders are literally rolling over in their graves.

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