[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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            CRIME BILL FOUND WANTING, WEAK ON FIGHTING CRIME

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, when the crime bill originally came before the 
House, I supported the crime bill and some of its provisions--more 
prisons, a swifter death penalty, and tougher punishment. Now, the 
conference report has produced a crime bill that I cannot support.
  Even after the conference committee has taken out the racial quota 
provision, President Clinton promises to enact it by Executive order. 
This will kill the death penalty.
  This bill has grown from a $22 billion bill in the Senate for prisons 
and police to $33 billion for more than 40,000 new social workers, pork 
and political patronage.
  This bill will release 10,000 convicted drug felons on our streets 
and in our neighborhoods. This bill creates a vast array of new social 
programs. The Members have heard some of them--midnight basketball and 
dance programs.
  Mr. Speaker, this crime bill is part of the problem. It is not the 
solution sought by me or by the American people. I regret that I can 
not support this crime conference report in its present form.

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