[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 45 (Thursday, April 21, 1994)]
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             H.R. 4092: A GOOD ANTICRIME, PROCOMMUNITY BILL

  (Mr. FARR of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about the 
crime bill we are going to vote on this afternoon.
  This crime bill is not just a tough bill on crime. It is not just a 
bill that creates more prisons. It is not just a bill that creates more 
death penalties. It is not just additional criminal punishment. This 
bill is a good anticrime, procommunity bill.
  It needs to be pointed out that there is a youth initiative in this 
legislation to allow for elementary children and high school children 
to have afterschool programs. There are new funds in this bill for 
cities and counties and States to develop an anticrime program on the 
street level.
  There is more interaction in this bill for police on the streets to 
work cooperatively with their communities so that we have a smart cop 
on the beat.
  Hopefully this bill would incorporate a ban on assault rifles. This 
is not in the legislation today, but when the House brings it up, I 
hope they will follow the lead of the California legislature and other 
States that have taken a tough stand to ban assault rifles.
  I ask this body to support the crime bill today and to support the 
ban on assault rifles when it appears in a few weeks.

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