[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
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                          DEFENDING HIS RECORD

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, tonight the President will face the Nation 
during an evening press conference. Let us hope that his answers are a 
lot less dissembling than Roger Altman's.
  Mr. Clinton will be using his crime bill as an example of the success 
of his presidency. Indeed this conference report is genuinely symbolic 
of this administration, because like his so-called stimulus package, 
like his welfare reform package, and like his health care bill, the 
President's crime bill is a billion dollar boondoggle.
  Half of the money in this bill does go to worthy and important 
anticrime initiatives, but the other half is a giveaway to the 
protectors of the welfare state.
  Money goes to organized lobbyists for more Federal spending. It goes 
to help social workers get organized. It goes to the Health and Human 
Services Secretary to upgrade the management of community development 
corporations, and it goes to dozens of programs of the Great Society, 
which, as the American people are increasingly aware, are often the 
cause, not the cure, for our social ills.
  Mr. Speaker, President Clinton's White House has a radical, left-wing 
agenda. The President will defend his record tonight at a press 
conference, but there is little defense for the crime bill conference 
report.

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