[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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                             THE CRIME BILL

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, let me suggest an anthem for victims of crime.

       Victims of crime unite, throw off the chains of fear that 
     bind you to your home after dark. Live in a world where your 
     children can play safely on their playgrounds, where they can 
     go into school without fear of violence.

  Mr. Speaker, this should be the anthem of revolution against crime in 
our streets. Instead, the crime bill we will consider today is a muted 
response to a massive problem. Instead of building more prisons, it 
builds more social welfare programs. Rather than giving the police a 
greater ability to prosecute known criminals, it limits that ability. 
Rather than removing obstacles to swift justice, it places more 
obstacles in the way. Instead of sending Charles Campbell to the death 
chamber, it encourages even more appeals to help him escape his 
rightful sentence.
  Mr. Speaker, the President and the Democrats in the Congress talk a 
good anticrime game, but when it comes to real anticrime measures they 
would rather sit on the bench.

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