[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: August 3, 1994]
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                 THE CRIME BILL MAKES GOVERNMENT BIGGER

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, the crime bill that liberals finally agreed 
to last week does not do much to provide safe and secure neighborhoods 
for Americans.
  In fact, this crime bill more resembles the President's stimulus 
package that failed last year because almost a third of its total 
funding goes to new social programs.
  For example, one new program in the bill, the Ounce of Prevention 
Council, only serves to coordinate this pork barrel feast for urban 
politicians.
  To coordinate this effort, President Clinton's Secretaries of 
Housing, Justice, Agriculture, and Labor will spend $100 million a 
year.
  Mr. Speaker, only in Washington could $100 million be considered an 
ounce--that is more than the entire yearly GNP of some countries.
  The Government is already too big and spends too much.
  The only thing this crime bill aims to do is to make the Government 
bigger and more expensive, and doing little to punish criminal 
behavior.

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