James Traficant

I support the bill and I agree there are working poor, women and many people who are now homeless. I want to remind the Congress of the United States that there are veterans who are homeless as well. I passed an amendment to H.R. 2 that…

Mr. Speaker, I too rise with great enthusiasm to support this bill introduced by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Lewis), my friend, who recognized the outstanding contributions of former Senator Sam Nunn. He was elected in 1972, as stated…

Unbelievable, the IRS admits it is wrong and vows to fix it. That is right, they said no more taking of property by individual agents, only district directors of the IRS can seize your property. How nice of those computer bullies. Think…

20 years ago Larry Singleton picked up Mary Vincent. Singleton raped her, and to escape discovery, chopped off her hands and threw Mary into a ditch for her to bleed to death. Mary survived and helped convict this bum. Larry Singleton was…

A CIA report says Mexico's powerful Interior Minister is dirty. He is tied to drug cartels and he turned a blind eye to drug trafficking. A blind eye to 7 tons of narcotics crossing the border every single day, 14,000 pounds? After all…

While everybody in Washington is talking about a fly on our face, an elephant may be eating our assets. Charlie Trie was indicted for illegal campaign contributions. The indictment reads: Charlie Trie helped to purchase access to…

What a world. Frazzled Frances Wyndham believes she got pregnant during a sexy e-mail exchange by a paramour 1,500 miles away. That is right: pregnant. Frances said, and I quote, ``His words were so sexy, I was totally seduced.'' Talk…

I question many of the economic policies, like many Democrats. And we can take a look at Ronald Reagan as any other president, and we can question many things. But I think we have to give the Gipper his due here today. Ronald Reagan…

I believe President Reagan did a great job in dismantling communism, and I will vote for the rule.

Karla Faye Tucker, who is scheduled to be executed tonight, has asked for clemency. This is the same Karla Faye Tucker who brutally murdered two helpless victims with a pick ax, no less. At that trial, Karla Faye testified, and I quote…

The IRS has finally confessed. A spokesman admitted, and I quote: ``IRS seizure practices are unfair.'' He further said that the IRS is now starting a new program. Check this out: Under this new program, the IRS district director must…

There has not been one Member that has addressed the legal precedents of the challenge to this motion

Nearly all of the great economic improvement in the country has the fingerprints of one of America's great chairmen, the gentleman from Texas (Mr

80 percent of all drugs in America comes through Mexico. Heroin use by 12 to 17-year-olds is at a record level. Our border patrol agents are being shot at every day. Even the life of America's Drug Czar, General McCaffrey, has now been…

Kodak is laying off 10,000 workers. Now if that is not enough to overexpose your most recent negative, Fruit of the Loom is cutting 3,000 jobs and moving to Mexico. Unbelievable. It is getting easier to find Charlie Trie and Elvis than it…

Mr. Speaker, the only substantive difference between the Senate bill and H.R. 849 is the time period the Department of Transportation will have to develop the regulations that prescribe the processes, the procedures and the information a…

I want to really salute our colleague for that tremendous achievement. He started out in Philadelphia as the youngest city councilman ever elected. He worked tirelessly for his constituents. I think it is absolutely proper and fitting to…

Let us tell it like it is. The last fast track traded Ma Bell for Taco Bell. Today's fast track will trade more American jobs and dollars and factories to all of Central America for a '48 Ford pickup truck, two loads of pinto beans and…

I am opposed to fast track. When American workers are serving Mexican tomatoes and Canadian beef at Burger King and Bob Evans, something is very wrong. The American workers are not dumb. They are fed up, they are sick and tired of…

Students in Alabama are skipping school protesting the fact that they are not allowed to pray. Think about it. Even though America has guns, rape, drugs, even heroin and murder in our schools, students are not allowed to pray…

To pass fast track the President said he will expand job retraining and unemployment counseling by $1.2 billion. Unbelievable. The reason is very simple: More Americans will lose their jobs on yet another fast track. To be more specific…

One thing for sure, I am certainly not going to oppose the gentleman's bill or his efforts. I must disagree in one area. I think the gentleman's bill will do an awful lot. It sets the tone of the way we should be looking at China, and…

I want to commend the Republican Party, the gentleman from Texas, the gentleman from Georgia, the gentleman from Ohio, and also along with the gentleman from New York and the gentleman from Maryland for this great bill. This is a great…

America gives billions of foreign aid to Russia; Russia then takes American cash and builds new weapons; Russia then offers to sell the old weapons to Iran. America trying to keep nuclear technology from Iran, and they buy the old weapons…

Today is a day that I am very glad to see come, and in a way I am also sad. For 10 years I have worked to shift the burden of proof in the civil tax case, and I guess I am glad because today we finally get a chance to see that on the House…