[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 14583-14584]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         SERENITY IN WASHINGTON

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, this morning I just want to draw a sharp 
criticism against Members of this House who have sent a letter to Kofi 
Annan of the United Nations asking for United Nations monitors at our 
elections in November.

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  Mr. Speaker, I will have to admit there are people in my district, a 
great many constituents in my district who do not understand what goes 
on in Washington. We have a candidate for the highest office in the 
land who talks about some vague references to foreign leaders who would 
prefer him. We have a judiciary that seems to have its eye on the 
international courts. And now we have Members of this body asking for 
U.N. observers at our elections. We have got borders that are so porous 
as to be a joke.
  The people in my district rightly ask, ``Does serenity mean anything 
in Washington?''

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