James Traficant

The President said if China wants a ceremony in Tiananmen Square, so be it; it is not my place to make demands on Communist China. Unbelievable. When the leader of the free world stands with Communists on the very same site where young…

Last year the top dog at Bank One made $9 million. The big barker at Edison Brothers made $5 million. The kennel master at K-Mart made $6 million. Mr. Speaker, if that is not enough to potty train a Rottweiler, the big Doberman at AT&T…

I think we should take ourselves out of the fish bowl and think like everyone else. We talk about user fees, service fees, excise taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, estate taxes, capital gains taxes, property taxes, marriage taxes, school…

The legal decisions say that if a school board wants to have a school prayer, they are prohibited from doing so. Mr. Speaker, I say to the Members, the judges in America do not govern, they interpret the Constitution. They interpret the…

The first Constitution allowed slavery. It treated women like property. It treated American native Indians like buffalos. The Congress, in its wisdom, changed the wrongs of the Constitution and did so by amending it. Now the judges have…

I want to thank him as one of his members of the committee and thank him for the job he has done at the Kennedy Center because his fingerprints are on every improvement possibly since I have been in Congress for 14 years, and they…

When Serbian President Milosevic promised to work with Albanian leaders in Kosovo, the White House lifted sanctions on Serbia. Milosevic then proceeded to slaughter thousands of ethnic Albanians, many of them helpless women and children…

Another tragedy in our schools: more expert analysis. One group said America should heed the advice of the First Lady when she said it takes a community to raise a child. I do not mean to be disrespectful, but I disagree. Communities do…

Our military is underfunded. We have taken a meat ax to it. We have sent our military all over the world to protect the borders all over the world. Today's debate is about national security in our border. There was, in fact, a report…

Mr. Chairman, in order to vote on the Traficant amendment, you must defeat the Reyes amendment. Mr. Reyes admitted when he started he opposes troops on the border. The buzzword in here is reconnaissance. Reconnaissance means to gather…

Mr. Chairman, the only difference with these two amendments is he says you can put them on the border, but they cannot engage. The Traficant amendment says, I do not limit them. They can tackle them, they can detain them, but they can only…

That is all my amendment says. But it then codifies how those troops shall be used so there are no more accidental shootings, there is adequate training, they are never without the presence of a law enforcement entity. And it does exactly…

Today the House will cast the key vote on the war on drugs. The House will vote to either maintain the status quo and do nothing, or begin to fight. Some of the misconceptions and untruths about the Traficant amendment: It will not mandate…

Federal agents killed his dog, they killed his 14-year-old son, and they killed his wife. Federal agents said they did not like his politics. Randy Weaver is a white separatist. My colleagues do not like his politics, I do not like…

California businessman Johnny Chung gave $300,000 to the Democrat National Committee. Chung said he got the money from a member of the Chinese army. Surprise. This is the same guy Chung who said, my donations are subway tokens for a train…

My amendment is just a straightforward little piece of legislation that says, if this becomes law, what we are debating today, that we do not guess what the impact will be, that there shall be a report to the Congress explaining in detail…

This debate is not about the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) or Bill Clinton. It is not about the Lincoln bedroom or Monica Lewinsky. This debate is about our national security. This is no fly on our face. This is an elephant eating…

The White House slapped sanctions on India because India was conducting nuclear tests. Unbelievable. It is like Mike Tyson beating up Woody Allen for failing to fight. India is not the problem, White House; China is the problem. And the…

Mr. Speaker, I support this resolution. I would like to say that I will be introducing legislation that will make the murder of a law enforcement officer a Federal offense, and the punishment shall be the death penalty. I think we put too…

The trade representative said, and I quote: China is guilty, guilty of attaching fraudulent ``Made in America'' labels to Chinese made products. She said she was surprised and, as a result, we are hitting China with a $94 million maximum…

The threat of nuclear proliferation is real and it must be curtailed. But while we keep worrying about missiles from without, narcotics are destroying America from within. I believe that we are losing the war on drugs and it is not because…

In closing, I think the interpretation of the Constitution has been so perverted I think we had better be very specific on this takings issue.

Foreign aid for Russia, billions for Japan and Germany, missiles for China, citizenship for illegal immigrants, free condoms for school kids, free needles for drug addicts. Now if that is not enough to roast the pork barrel, check this…

When it comes to China, the wheel is turning but the hamster is dead. Check this out. China rips us off for $60 billion a year. Then they steal our nuclear and missile technology. Then they sell that technology and those missiles to our…

After the Arkansas tragedy where four students and a teacher were killed by two youngsters, the shooting death of Pennsylvania teacher John Gillette has shocked America. Experts are confused and, they say, searching for answers. The irony…