[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 11, 1994]
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   PASSAGE OF CRIME BILL THREATENED BY PARTISAN POLITICS AND SPECIAL 
                               INTERESTS

  (Mr. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, today partisan politics and special 
interests could kill the crime bill. This is a crime vote, not a gun 
vote. Today we either pass a crime bill and do what our constituents 
and the American people want us to do or we once again cave in to 
partisanship, special interest lobbies, or gridlock.
  We can sit here and talk all we want to about health care, GATT, the 
economy, or Haiti, but in the final analysis it is the crime issue that 
will determine whether we are a do-nothing Congress or a Congress that 
bites the bullet and does the right thing. Most importantly, this vote 
will determine whether many of us are here next year or not.
  Mr. Speaker, let us not cave into special interests and partisanship. 
Let us do what the people sent us here to do and pass the crime bill.

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