[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 51 (Tuesday, May 3, 1994)]
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                  WE NEED PRISONS, NOT PRESS RELEASES

  (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, we need prisons, not press releases, as an 
answer to crime. There is a great deal of press release material coming 
up this week on the House floor, but I urge Members to look at the 
facts about what is going on. I want to lock up every violent criminal, 
I want them to serve a full sentence, I am prepared to pay to build the 
prisons that are necessary. I believe there are things we can do to 
make America safe. But if we read what the President said in the 
morning paper, he is just factually wrong. He cited a gun which killed 
a policeman in Menomonee Falls, he cited the wrong gun. The gun that 
killed the policeman is not on the list that is supposed to be banned.
  Mr. Speaker, the fact is the bans do not work and the 650 types of 
guns that are not banned are equally lethal to the guns that are to be 
banned.
  I urge my colleagues, do not vote for press releases, do not vote for 
propaganda. Vote for real sentences for violent criminals. Vote to 
build real prisons.
  Mr. Speaker, what we need are prisons, not press releases.

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