[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 110 (Wednesday, August 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 10, 1994]
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                             THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, every Member who is looking at the crime 
bill should understand why we are so concerned and why we want this 
bill to go back to conference.
  The Buffalo News reports this morning that the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation Director is openly worried. In a page 1 story entitled 
``FBI Chief Criticizes Crime Bill,'' on the inside it is ``Proposed 
Cuts Worry FBI Director,'' he says that the funding comes from 
downsizing the Federal Government and specifically from devastating the 
FBI and the DEA.
  I do not think Members realize that the crime bill, which has still 
not been reported, which has still not been filed, which some 
Democratic leaders are still trying to rewrite, even though it is 
supposedly out of conference, that bill specifically cuts the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation and the Drug enforcement Agency.
  I do think Members realize that the so-called crime bill is a social 
work bill that takes money away from the FBI to spend more money on 
social work. I hope that every Member will look at this kind of real 
issue and not vote for the rule on the crime bill.

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