[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9764]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         OPERATION CHOKE POINT

  (Mr. WILLIAMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, one of the most abusive government 
overreaches in our Nation's history is happening right now under our 
watch. Operation Choke Point began quietly last year as a way for 
President Obama and the Justice Department to intimidate and strangle 
businesses they no longer support.
  By forcing banks to cut ties with law-abiding businesses like 
sporting goods stores, licensed gun dealers, and thousands of others, 
these business owners have no recourse.
  Once again, President Obama is circumventing the legal and 
legislative process that was set in place to protect the free market, 
personal choice, and individual freedom. When did it become okay for 
the Federal Government of the United States of America to tell business 
owners that their business is no longer wanted in America? That is 
socialism in its purest form.
  Owning the banks and owning the market is the goal of this 
administration, and I urge my colleagues in Congress, as well as anyone 
who has ever owned or dreamed about owning their own business, to end 
the abuse. Operation Choke Point is an affront to the freedoms and 
liberty that millions of Americans have died to protect.
  In God we trust.

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