[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 4, 1994]
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      LET US SEE THE 1,000-PAGE CRIME BILL BEFORE WE HAVE TO VOTE

  (Mr. MANZULLO asked and was given permission to address the House and 
to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, no wonder the House Rules Committee 
refuses to let Members of Congress read the 1,000-page crime bill 
before we vote on it. I am one of the few Members of Congress who 
obtained a rough draft.
  Look at this program: $22 million dollars to rent or buy living 
facilities in residential districts so Federal prisoners can live with 
their families. The prisoners cannot be convicted of a crime of 
violence or abuse of a child, but they can be burglars, drug 
traffickers, racketeers. It's called the ``Family Unit Demonstration 
Project.''
  Why not just give $22 million back to the local sheriffs and chiefs 
of police and let them decide how to fight crime: They will probably 
hire more cops or whatever they need--but come on, apartments for 
Federal prisoners in residential neighborhoods? Whatever happens to 
punishment for crime?

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