James Traficant: “I agree 1,000 percent with the former speaker, the gentleman from eastern Kentucky [Mr. Bunning] and share in that…”

“I agree 1,000 percent with the former speaker, the gentleman from eastern Kentucky [Mr. Bunning] and share in that message. Where the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Bunning] says that Congress cannot control the policy within Mexico, nor for that matter any other foreign government, I wholeheartedly agree. But what bothers me today is Congress can control the policy of the United States of America and that is why we were in fact elected. We were not elected as a Member of the British Parliament or the Israeli Knesset or the Japanese Diet. We are in fact Members of Congress. An issue I want to talk about today is a bill that I have sponsored, H.R. 390, that is a very straightforward bill that deals with the IRS, I believe an agency of our Federal Government that the U.S. Congress has not only failed to control but has allowed to proceed without oversight in establishing not only policy which is clearly within the province of the United States of America, but rules and regulations that in fact impound and impact upon that policy and everybody seems to just be silent. Nobody wants the IRS on your back.”