[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 12 (Wednesday, February 9, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: February 9, 1994]
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 THE GAP BETWEEN THE WORDS AND THE DEEDS OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, once again there is a huge gap between the 
words of the Clinton administration and the deeds of the Clinton 
administration.
  President Clinton comes to this floor and talks about fighting crime. 
The Clinton budget in the largest single program it proposes to kill is 
killing the Burn Memorial Fund which grants aid to local police to 
fight drugs and violent crime. The Clinton budget stops at $86 million 
in drug interdiction against the southern border. The Clinton 
administration budget has 25 percent more for lawyers in the Legal 
Services Corporation, but less to stop the flow of drugs.
  It is very disappointing that at a time when 65 Americans are being 
murdered every day, at a time when 979 convicted felons are being 
released early every day, at a time when 14 percent of convicted 
rapists serve zero days in jail and 28 percent of convicted aggravated 
assault felons serve zero days in jail to see such inaction, such 
cutting of anticrime money, and to see a budget that falls so short of 
what we need to fight crime in America.

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