[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10181]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED US

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, I believe it is time and I think it is time 
for the Congress and the House of Representatives to not look at 
diversionary issues, but to look at how the Federal Government has 
failed us. The Federal Government failed us in Orlando, it failed us in 
San Bernardino, it failed us in Boston.
  The United States is under attack by extremist organizations, 
radicals. They have used a pressure cooker in Boston. They used pipe 
bombs and mechanisms they bought from plumbing stores in San 
Bernardino. They used weaponry that they acquired when the Federal 
Government failed in Orlando.
  It is time that we get our watch list corrected so that we don't put 
people on, take them off, don't know who is on the list, who is off the 
list. It is time that the Federal agencies for law enforcement and 
protecting us connect the dots and not miss the opportunities to stop 
the Orlandos, the San Bernardinos and the Bostons.

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