[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 3, 1994]
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     A GOOD BALANCE OF PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTION IN THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I have been in the House for a number of 
years, during which I have seen many anticrime bills scuttled because 
the bills went too far in the area of punishment and did too little in 
the area of trying to prevent crime. The genius of the bill that will 
be before the House in a day or two is the fact that it combines both 
approaches.
  It combines punishment, with more determinant sentencing, with more 
police on the beat, and with more prison construction, with prevention 
in the forms of social programs, educational programs, and sports 
programs to try to do something with our young people to deter them 
from a life of crime.
  If I may use a pun, Mr. Speaker, it would be a crime if this crime 
bill were scuttled at this stage of the game.
  Let me urge my colleagues to adopt what I consider to be an 
appropriate package of both punishment and prevention. This is what the 
American people deserve, and let us please give the American people 
this kind of a balanced anticrime package.

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