[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 11, 1994]
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             TAKE SOCIALIZED SPENDING OUT OF THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. CUNNINGHAM asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman from California is 
correct. There are a lot of good items in this bill, and the little 
issue that most of us resent is the $9 billion in socialized spending.
  Let us take ourselves back in the debate 100 years ago where we might 
hear:

       Marshall Dillon, do not worry about the hole-in-the-wall 
     gang. They are not going to cause you any more problems, 
     because we took the carbines away from Dodge residents. By 
     the way, Marshall Dillon, the prisoners you have in jail, we 
     are going to give them dance lessons. Miss Kitty, those folks 
     down at the Long Branch Saloon, no problem, we have got 
     40,000 social workers to take care of them, and if they still 
     get rowdy, we have got a midnight basketball program for all 
     of those cowboys. But they have to be 2 percent HIV positive. 
     You do not have to work past midnight.

  Let us not support the rule.

       If you support this rule, Mr. Dillon, Marshall Dillon, we 
     are going to give you a big, fat pork-barrel program in your 
     city.

  Our leadership offered the President a $9 billion way out of this 
bill by saying:

       Let us take the $9 billion and separate it and vote on it 
     separately. Let us take the $9 billion and put it toward the 
     real crime bill and take out the socialized spending.

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