[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: August 5, 1994]
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                 PORK-BARREL PROGRAMS IN THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, taxpayer-funded midnight basketball 
leagues. Federally funded arts and crafts. Dance programs paid for with 
Federal money. A local partnership act. Sound like a brand new, huge 
Federal giveaway program? Well, it is. Unfortunately, it is President 
Clinton's so called crime bill.
  Under the guise of crime fighting, President Clinton is trying to 
spend billions of dollars we do not have on pork-barrel programs which 
were rejected last year in his so-called stimulus package.
  We can do better and we must do better.
  Let us reject this bloated bureaucratic boondoggle and pass a real 
crime fighting bill that focuses on tougher sentencing for crooks, 
steamlines endless death penalty appeals puts enough police on the 
beat, and builds the needed prison space.

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