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James Traficant: “Prosecutor executed in Boston; World Trade Center bombed: Federal building blown up in Oklahoma: Amtrak train sabotaged…”

On the recordOctober 11, 1995
Prosecutor executed in Boston; World Trade Center bombed: Federal building blown up in Oklahoma: Amtrak train sabotaged in Arizona; A mailbox Unabomber that is killing people through mailboxes: 25,000 murders a year; in some cities high school dropout rates over 50 percent. I believe these are symptoms, Mr. Speaker, and Congress is addressing them as problems. Maybe the problems will be found in the Federal laws that reward dependency, penalize achievement, subsidize illegitimacy, kill families, kill investments, kill jobs. I say to my colleagues: without jobs we will continue to have the symptoms that are the headlines of the U.S. papers.

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Addressing crime and social issues during a speech in Congress.

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