[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 4, 1994]
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              CLINTON CRIME BILL: CHIHUAHUA FULL OF FLEAS

  (Mr. LIVINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, crime is America's No. 1 concern. Our 
people want us to put a doberman of a crime bill outside the Nation's 
house so they can sleep secure at night.
  Once again the Clinton White House has misunderstood the American 
people. Instead of a doberman crime bill, we are deliberating a 
chihuahua. What is worse, the Clinton watchdog has evidently mistaken 
the American taxpayer for a fire hydrant.
  The Clinton crime bill soaks the American taxpayer for billions in 
social spending which is as misplaced in a crime bill, as it is 
misguided as social policy.
  The chihuahua this White House is offering America as a watchdog has 
lots of excess baggage, and as any dog owner would acknowledge, that 
means fleas. This dog of a bill is positively popping with social 
spending fleas--arts and crafts fleas, dance fleas, self-esteem fleas, 
and of course, a big midnight basketball flea.
  Looking at this shivering, scratching Clinton chihuahua of a crime 
bill. Americans should wonder if there are not more fleas than dog 
here.

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