[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E]
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                     CRIMINALS SAY ``MAKE MY DAY''

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                               speech of

                           HON. TERRY EVERETT

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, August 10, 1994

  Mr. EVERETT. Mr. Speaker, who could forget Clint Eastwood's classic 
line: Make my day? Unfortunately, it is the bad guys saying it now. It 
is the Nation's 10,000 convicted drug pushers who are saying, 
``Congress, pass the pork-ridden crime bill so we can walk.''
  That is right. Under the liberal crime bill, Mr. Speaker, mandatory 
sentencing for drug dealers is all but eliminated. While this crime 
bill issues get-out-of-jail-free cards for drug criminals, it boasts 
placing a hundred thousand additional policemen on the street. Yet, 
when we read between the lines, only 20,000 are actually funded.
  No wonder criminals are saying, ``Make my day,'' and just what is the 
crime bill's answer to the growing violence and murder rocking America? 
Nine billion dollars in increased social spending instead of mandatory 
sentencing and tougher punishment.
  Mr. Speaker, I say, ``Washington is spending your tax dollars for 
inner-city pork projects, and dance lessons, and self-esteem classes, 
and midnight basketball, and arts and crafts lessons. This is no crime 
bill. This is pure pork and pure deception.''

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