James Traficant

This bill, as stated, clarifies the tax treatment of certain pensions. More specifically, as was stated by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas), technical to others but to the people impacted very substantive, because the bottom…

I believe energy independence should be a goal of the Congress in addition to conservation and our environment. But I have asked for this time for a different reason. Our illustrious chairman, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Dan…

While we are waiting, I would just like the Members of Congress to know that later today House Resolution 598 will be brought to the floor relative to the problem of illegal dumping of foreign steel in our markets that has destroyed…

Another chapter on American steel. We have already read Chapter 11, Chapter 13, and we are about to read a stone cold Chapter 7 due to illegal trade, dumping steel in America below cost, destroying families, destroying companies…

Merrill Lynch just cut 3,000 jobs. Ameritech cut 5,000 jobs. Raytheon cut 14,000 jobs. Motorola cut 15,000 jobs. AT&T cut 20,000 jobs. Boeing cut 30,000 jobs. Jobs lost. Jobs lost. And Japan, Russia, Brazil and Korea are destroying our…

I wanted to just give a definition and a reason why the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster) never quits. Because he is a Pitt man, a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, a fellow alumnist of mine. I want to compliment the…

Check this out. A bunch of rich, fat cats on Wall Street, through their hedge fund, gambled $100 billion on the Russian ruble with borrowed American money. We can figure it out, they lost big time and the Fed had to bail them out saying if…

The White House said, give the International Monetary Fund $18 billion more, or we will shut the government down. Take it and like it, Congress. Shut up and pass it, Congress. Enough is enough. When will the Congress grow a backbone? What…

I am not addressing and will not address the deplorable plight and condition of the steel industry at this time. But I believe there are some precedents in legal arguments concerning the privileges of the House and its Members to advance…

In closing, ladies and gentlemen, this is more than some trickery here. I want to say this to every Member in the House. We have delegated our authority. What we have not delegated has been usurped, and both sides of the aisle has allowed…

Let us see if this makes some sense: Foreign banks all over the world make bad loans knowingly to prop up their falling economies hoping against hope to salvage their systems. Then their businesses go belly up. They default on their loans…

The prosecutor has asked us to indict the President of the United States on 11 counts. All 11 counts involve an intern. In the video, in 4 hours of questioning, the prosecutor did not ask the President one time about FBI files, about the…

In America we have record trade deficits, record bankruptcies, record debt, consolidations, downsizing, more American jobs keep going overseas, a schizophrenia stock market, all symptoms of a major economic problem in America. After all…

Russia got $20 billion, Asia got over $100 billion, and now International Monetary Fund wants a $30 billion bailout for Brazil. That is right, the same Brazil that illegally dumps millions of tons of steel in America, below the production…

I have worked hard to pass this legislation. The Congress might look at a few facts: We have a $60 billion trade deficit with Japan, and an approaching $50 billion trade deficit with China. Everybody talks about buy American. But the truth…

Once again genocide has reared its ugly head. Serbian President Milosevic is brutally exterminating ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Women, children, even the elderly are being slaughtered. After all this, France says, and I quote, ``We must…

Congratulations to ``Big Mac McGwire'' and ``Slamming Sammy Sosa.'' Their achievements and their character are in fact role models for all of America's youth. Today I rise, however, to pay tribute to 2 sort of forgotten past baseball…

Without a doubt Howard University has produced an awful lot of fine graduates. I would just like to associate myself with all the remarks made, but I would like to steal a quote from FDR, when he talked about a day that would live in…

I, for one, do not question the reasons or demean the intentions at all of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Archer), the Republicans and the former speaker the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kasich). I think the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Archer) is…

American workers are sick and tired of fast track. Take today's fast track, for example, another fast track that will send more American factories, more American investment, and more American jobs overseas, this time to Central America. In…

This is not a free trade bill. This is not even a trade bill. This is a process bill, an accelerated process on how we are going to handle the trade agreement. And, once again, Congress is going to turn the powers over to the White House…

China's trade surplus has ballooned to over $1 billion a week, and China is doing it illegally: prison labor, slave wages at 17 cents an hour, illegal dumping, trade barriers. When confronted, China thumbs their nose right in our faces. In…

I am very, very proud to sponsor this bill which will designate the U.S. courthouse in my hometown of New Haven, Connecticut, as the "Richard C. Lee United States Courthouse." Richard C. Lee epitomizes all that a mayor can and should be…

Mr. Speaker, Mayor Richard Lee has become known as the model mayor for our country and for this century. Having served in World War II, he returned to his hometown of New Haven and he started a lifetime of service. There is something I…

America has a $60 million trade deficit with Japan, $50 billion with China, a $24 billion deficit with Canada, $20 plus billion with Mexico. The bleeding goes on and on, good-paying jobs lost by the thousands every week, every month. After…