[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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               PASSAGE OF THE CRIME BILL WOULD BE A CRIME

  (Mr. COX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, I have just heard my colleague say that we have 
studied this issue and studied it and studied it.
  We all know what is in it.
  Well, in fact, when the conference committee was doing its work, even 
the conferees did not know the committee chairman was sticking in $10 
million of pork for a local university in his district.
  This is what totals $9 billion of pork in this bill. It is why it is 
not a crime bill at all. It is in fact a criminal welfare bill.
  Why should we call it a criminal welfare bill? Well, first, because 
in it there is so much welfare for criminals.
  Second, all of this pork in a bill such as this under the guise of a 
crime bill is, well, just criminal, and we ought not pass it.
  We have got arts and crafts in this bill. We have got new social 
workers. We have got dance programs. I am not making this up. I suppose 
on Mondays and Wednesdays the murderers will lead, and on Tuesdays and 
Thursdays the rapists and so on.
  This is a return of the discredited Clinton pork-barrel stimulus 
package that Congress defeated last year.
  With all of this pork, is there any room for law enforcement? Well, 
the FBI Director, Louis Freeh, spilled the beans. He tells us the FBI 
and the Drug Enforcement Administration will lose over 1,000 personnel 
in order to pay for this bill.
  Passage of this so-called crime bill would be a crime.

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