[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8819]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 HURRICANE VICTIM IS HURRICANE VILLAIN

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, she lost her house, she lost her way of life, 
and she lost her innocence. She had fled Katrina. She fled to Texas. 
But also fleeing with the good were the bad, and then the ugly 
happened.
  Matthew Lindsey, registered sex offender from Louisiana, fled to 
Texas. He got that free FEMA money and those free FEMA hotel rooms. But 
FEMA would not let Texas lawmen see their database and cross-check for 
criminals like Lindsey. It was private, they said.
  So it was then while baby-sitting 12 kids at a shelter he molested 
this 8-year-old girl. Now one little girl has emotional scars that will 
forever be with her.
  Lindsey was one of 146 sex perverts that took the name ``hurricane 
victim'' and became that hurricane villain.
  Congress must stop this nonsense and make FEMA quit protecting the 
lawless. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the 
Fraternal Order of Police supports such legislation. We cannot stop 
hurricanes; we can stop sex offenders. We can force FEMA to help the 
lawmen find the outlaws and thereby save the innocent.
  And that's just the way it is.

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