James Traficant: “I have a concern here. The new majority wanted to dispose of property and real estate at 501 First Street. It came…”

“I have a concern here. The new majority wanted to dispose of property and real estate at 501 First Street. It came through the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and it was handled in the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Economic Development. I notice now that this property, the conveyance and sale of it, is in this continuing resolution. I am certainly not going to try and obstruct this particular measure but I would like to say this. This sets a precedent, and the subcommittee had, in fact, placed into that particular language that there would be a net gain from the sale of this and it would not cost the people of the United States money to convey property for the sake of getting rid of it. Second of all, the welfare of those children in that day care center would, in fact, be addressed and handled properly in an orderly fashion. I would like to state that the welfare of those children has not been addressed in the sense of the Congress situation in here and the language relating to the fact that there shall be a net gain from the sale of this has also been removed. I want to state that this is not the way to set a precedent for the types of action that has been taken by the new majority.”