[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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        RISE ABOVE PETTY PARTISAN- SHIP AND PASS THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, for over 200 years ordinary Americans have 
brought their fears and their hopes to this House. In its finest hour 
this House has heard them. It has acted boldly and courageously to 
attend to their needs, and bind the Nation's wounds, and bring us 
together in hope.
  The American people are in need today, Mr. Speaker. They are in 
anguish from the bloody scourge of violent crime that terrorizes our 
Nation from the poorest neighborhoods to the richest, and everything in 
between, and we have before them an answer. We have a bold crime bill 
that answers their calls for help that has been 6 years in the making.
  However, Mr. Speaker, a stubborn few are falling back on a bitter 
call to partisanship and demagoguery. Having failed on the merits, they 
hurl the empty charge that this bill has one thing or another that they 
do not like.
  Yes, there are things in this bill that I do not like. There are 
things in this bill the President does not like. There are things in 
this bill that the majority leader or the minority leader do not like. 
But if we all say we will not vote for a bill because there are one or 
two things in it we do not like we will end up with gridlock, and the 
Nation will hold us to account.
  Rise above the petty passions of the moment, and pass the crime bill 
that American people are urgently pleading with us to pass.
  [Mr. EVERETT addressed the House. His remarks will appear hereafter 
in the Extensions of Remarks.]

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