[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
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                  CRIME BILL: GREAT HOAX OF THE 1990'S

  (Mr. HUTCHINSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUTCHINSON. Mr. Speaker, Mark Twain once said:

       It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there 
     is no distinctly native American criminal class except 
     Congress.

  Well, the crime bill conference report seems to buttress that 
assertion. Rarely has so much money been spent on so few to do so 
little.
  With the American people clamoring for tough anticrime measures, the 
Congress delivers midnight basketball plus 29 other new social 
programs.
  With the failure of the Great Society programs of the sixties, 
Congress is about to pass the great hoax of the 1990's. Government is 
too big, and spends too much.
  Mr. Speaker, there are some good things in this crime bill. It does 
spend money on prisons. It does spend money on more police. And it does 
not include quotas in death sentencing.
  But there is so much wasteful spending in this bill, the American 
people should take a second look. Let us vote down the rule and send 
the crime bill back to conference.

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