[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 40 (Thursday, April 14, 1994)]
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     THE GAP BETWEEN FACT AND FICTION IN 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, there is a huge gap between the fact and 
the fiction of the Clinton administration. It is obvious in Whitewater, 
but I want to take today's time to talk about fact and fiction in 
crime.
  There is a recent report that the Immigration and Naturalization 
Service will no longer fingerprint suspicious immigrants, suspicious 
foreigners, because they lack $1 million. Last year, they found 9,000 
people who were either convicted felons, potential terrorists, or 
otherwise suspicious who were barred from the United States, 9,000.
  In the middle of all the posturing, all the public relations, all the 
effort to say the right words because of the right focus groups, 
because of the right polling, what we discover is that in fact, this 
administration is not spending $1 million to block terrorists and 
felons from coming to America.
  I am going to ask the Committee on Appropriations to reprogram $1 
million to allow us to continue to fingerprint suspicious immigrants, 
but it is one more example of the gap between fact and fiction in the 
Clinton administration.

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