[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

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, no wonder the White House is calling it a 
crime bill. It has waited around so long that it could have been 
arrested for vagrancy and now that it has finally arrived it should be 
prosecuted for false and misleading advertising.
  This bill is a crime bill in name only. In action it is another of 
this administration's patented big spending, feel-good, social 
programs.
  In the case of the so-called crime bill, they have simply dressed 
their pet program up in a police uniform and viola, the failed social 
programs of the sixties become the failed crime fighters of the 
nineties.
  Of the $30 billion this bill will cost American taxpayers, only a 
fraction--$13 billion--actually goes to law enforcement.
  Of that $13 billion, less than $9 billion will go to pay for the 
much-touted 100,000 new police officers.
  Where will the rest of the $17 billion go? To social programs like 
midnight basketball, like craft and art activities, and self-esteem 
enhancement programs.
  On second thought, instead of being arrested for false advertising 
maybe the Clinton crime bill should be arrested for grand larceny.

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