[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14576-14577]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MISUSE OF FEDERAL POWER

  (Mr. GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, we have so much to be proud of in 
our country: our young people serving in the military, protecting our 
Nation, our law enforcement working long hours to make us safe. We can 
even celebrate last night the Houston Astros winning a no-hitter 
against the New York Yankees with six pitchers.
  What we cannot be proud of and what bothers many Americans is we have 
had three different congressional committee members ask the Department 
of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the FBI to release 
all the information and audiotapes concerning the use of our Federal 
law enforcement to track Texas legislators. This sounds like an abuse 
of authority, and it smells.
  Our law enforcement should not be used for partisan political 
purposes. Release these tapes and let the American people decide who is 
wasting our law enforcement's time, when they should be protecting our 
Nation, looking for Texas legislators.

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