[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9078]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           CITIZEN PATRIOTISM

  (Mr. TERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TERRY. Mr. Speaker, perhaps more than ever in our Nation's 
history, at least since the Revolutionary War, our citizens are rising 
up to their responsibilities to be on guard and report suspicious 
behavior and activities. Often these patriotic deeds go unnoticed and 
unheralded. This is true of one such person in my district.
  Harvey Roffman, a resident of Omaha, Nebraska, in 1987 was working as 
a trade specialist for the U.S. Department of Commerce. During that 
time, he received a phone call from a businessman who believed that 
some of his product was being delivered illegally to the country of 
Libya.
  Based on that information, Mr. Roffman brought the businessmen 
together with the Commerce's Department of Export Administration. That 
led to an investigation revealing that $275,000 in steel pipe was being 
diverted from Hanover, Germany, to the terrorist country Libya. As a 
result, an additional quarter million dollars' worth of product 
destined to this same terrorist country was canceled.
  Mr. Speaker, I bring this story to the attention of the House now not 
to give Harvey Roffman a pat on the back, which he has deserved over 
these past many years, but because it is a wonderful example to all our 
citizens that their watchfulness and vigilance could save lives and 
stop our enemies from terrorist acts.

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