[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 35 (Thursday, March 24, 1994)]
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       DO WE WANT CRIME CONTROL OR PRESIDENTIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, last August, August 4 to be specific, 
Republicans offered a tough and comprehensive anticrime bill. 
Republicans have been very eager to debate this issue for 7 months. The 
Democrats seem interested in crime, too, but it is now clear from their 
morning's headlines that their interest lies in scoring quick political 
points and providing a change of subject for the scandal-embattled 
White House.
  First, the Democrats tried to ram through a weak and incomplete crime 
bill--so they could go home for recess and say they accomplished 
something, but those were tough policy ideas we effectively protested 
yesterday. The truth is the liberal Democrats do not want tough crime 
control and prevention, and Democratic leadership now that today's 
photo op at the White House for the crime bill has been missed has 
given up on getting a crime bill passed before the recess.
  For the record, Mr. Speaker, the Republicans are ready, willing, and 
able to get on with the crime bill that America is asking us to do, and 
we are saying yes, yes, yes, yes to getting tough on crime.

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