[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 11, 1994]
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            CRIME BILL CONFERENCE REPORT WORTHY TO BE PASSED

  (Mr. BILBRAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, I heard the gentleman from California from 
the Long Beach area say that we had not had time to study this bill. I 
think people forget this is the conference committee report.
  For 6 years we have discussed this bill, and we had extensive debate 
on the floor of this House on every major issue that is in this bill 
including the assault ban. I voted against that ban. As the 
undersheriff from Clark County wrote in in support of the bill, he said 
he supported the bill even though the assault ban was frivolous, 
because we know criminals buy those guns not from authorized dealers 
but off the illegal market.
  But, on the other hand, there is so much good in this bill, and we 
have certainly studied this bill and studied this bill and studied this 
bill. Remember, gentlemen, this is the conference committee report. 
This is not the initial debate. We debated and debated and debated.
  Let us support the rule and move it forward.
  I do not like a lot of things that are in it, but I like a lot of 
things that are in it. I think it is worthy to be passed.
  Let us get the rule passed, and let us vote the bill in.

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