[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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                             THE CRIME BILL

  Mr. HATCH. Madam President, Congress' historic opportunity to pass a 
bipartisan, tough anticrime bill is still alive, in my opinion. The 
House wisely defeated the proposed rule on the Democrats' conference 
report to the crime bill. Notwithstanding personal lobbying by the 
President and arm twisting by partisans, the House realized that the 
American people do not want a bill which wastes billions and billions 
of dollars on social spending boondoggles. The House courageously 
listened to law-abiding citizens who know it is time to get tough on 
criminals. More pork mean less crime.
  This is a bill which would release as many as 10,000 to 16,000 
Federal inmates early. That is not a tough bill. That is not a smart 
bill.

  It was a bill which spent precious crime-fighting resources on pork-
barrel spending. It is not tough, and it sure is not smart.
  It is a bill which increases the deficit by $13 billion. And that is 
not tough and it sure is not smart.
  It is time for the administration to work with Republicans in a 
bipartisan effort to pass a crime bill for all Americans.
  One year ago, the Congress defeated the administration's so-called 
economic stimulus package. The Congress saw it for what it was--a 
multibillion dollar social spending package just laced with pork.
  Having failed with the economic stimulus label, the administration 
slapped an anticrime label on these programs, and they stuck them in 
the crime bill and hid them there.
  Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that a side-by-side 
comparison of the economic stimulus package and the crime bill's social 
spending boondoggles be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                    CRIME BILL--GRANDSON OF STIMULUS                    
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   Crime bill conference report        Stimulus package (February 1993) 
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Approximately half of the spending   Approximately half of the spending 
 in this Crime Bill is reserved for   in this ``emergency'' legislation 
 fiscal years 1999 and 2000 where     would not have been spent in the  
 no spending caps exist to ensure     first year and was outside of     
 deficit neutrality.                  spending caps established by law. 
Bill is subject to a Section 306     Bill was subject to a Section 306  
 (60 vote) point of order under the   (60 vote) point of order under the
 Budget Act because it deals with     Budget Act because it dealt with  
 matters under the jurisdiction of    matters under the jurisdiction of 
 the Budget Committee.                the Budget Committee.             
$900 million Youth Employment and    $1 billion for summer youth        
 Skills Crime Prevention, on grants   employment.                       
 for job training, apprenticeships,                                     
 occupational skills, and job                                           
 experience targeted at youth in                                        
 high crime, high unemployment                                          
 areas.                                                                 
$300 million for the National        $2.536 billion for Community       
 Community Economic Partnership,      Economic Development Grants.      
 providing lines of credit through                                      
 the Department of HHS to non-                                          
 profit ``community development                                         
 corporations'' for distressed                                          
 communities.                                                           
$1.8 billion for the Local           $500 million for summer school and 
 Partnership Act providing revenue    pre-school program, $500 million  
 sharing grants to localities for     for Head Start, $32 million for   
 education, drug abuse treatment,     Community Service Employment for  
 and job training programs.           Older Americans, $200 million for 
                                      AIDS: Ryan White Act, $15 million 
                                      National Commission on Community  
                                      Service.                          
$895 million for the Model           $845 EPA revolving funds/          
 Intensive Grant Program providing    construction grants, $736 million 
 grants to fund up to 15 model        Mass Transit, $270 million in     
 programs in high crime areas.        discretionary Dept. of            
 Funds can be spent on almost         Transportation grants, $423       
 anything that can be justified as    million Supportive Housing, $6    
 ``crime related'' including: drug    million very low income housing   
 treatment, deterioration or lack     repairs, $141 million SBA loans.  
 of public facilities, and public                                       
 transportation.                                                        
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Note.--Senate Budget Committee Minority Staff Preliminary Analysis,     
  August 3, 1994.                                                       

  Mr. HATCH. Madam President, I commend my colleagues in the House for 
their leadership in sending a signal to the administration that 
Americans want a tough crime bill, not a soft-headed one.
  I yield the floor.

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