James Traficant: “Florida tomato farmers have simply gone bankrupt. Mexican tomatoes are being dumped on our market, $2 a crate. It cost…”

“Florida tomato farmers have simply gone bankrupt. Mexican tomatoes are being dumped on our market, $2 a crate. It cost about $7 to produce them. Florida farmers went to the WhiteHouse, and then came to Congress, and everybody laughed at them. They filed a section 201 lawsuit under the Trade Act. The International Trade Commission ruled in favor of Mexico. The chief investigator, Lee Frankel, now works for the organization that imports most of the Mexican tomatoes, and is making most of the money on Mexican tomatoes. I say it is time for a grand jury to investigate the International Trade Commission and Lee Frankel, who I believe are lining their pockets and screwing American farmers. Right to the point, I would also like to suggest to somebody they start looking inside those tomato trucks down there. They would not be surprised to find out, I suspect, that most of the heroin and cocaine coming into this country is coming in produce trucks. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.”