[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 5, 1994]
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                               TRUE CRIME

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, an article on the front page of yesterday's 
New York Times grossly misrepresents the motives and diligence of many 
Members of this House. According to the article:

       All 178 Republicans in the House can be expected to vote 
     against the crime bill since they do so regardless of the 
     nature of the legislation.

  If the Times wants to go into the pulp fiction business, that's their 
concern. But let us separate myth from fact: I and my Republican 
colleagues want nothing more than to lend full support to a tough and 
smart crime bill. The problem is that no such legislation exists. What 
we call a crime bill is little more than a $33 billion social spending 
bill full of pork and waste. It is a bill that does a whole lot more to 
raise the deficit than it does to reduce crime. Right now this so-
called crime bill is in Democratic Party gridlock caught up in 
Democratic Party machinations. It is not the Republicans holding it up.

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