[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: January 26, 1994]
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                           A REAL CRIME FIGHT

  (Mr. WALKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, last night in his State of the Union 
Address, the President suggested we put 100,000 more policemen on the 
beat. That is something that he had suggested in his 1992 campaign, and 
yet not one piece of legislation came out of his administration to do 
that job. Why? Because his administration could not prioritize the 
funding needed to put those 100,000 more policemen on the beat.
  It is not just here that the President could not find the necessary 
funding. The fact is that this administration has not given a priority 
to crime fighting anywhere. There are less Federal prosecutors on the 
job than were there when President Clinton took office. There are 250 
fewer FBI agents on the beat. There was no new graduating class of FBI 
agents in 1993.
  The drug czars' office, where drug crime fighting is coordinated, has 
been emasculated. Meantime, the Surgeon General in this administration 
is running around the country talking about legalizing drugs.
  Middle-class America wants a real crime fight. This administration 
has not even gotten into the ring.

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