[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 12, 1994]
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         NEW JERSEY TRAGEDY POINTS UP NEED FOR TOUGH 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, I witnessed two things on television 
last night. One was where the parents of a little girl in New Jersey 
named Megan spoke. They buried her last week. A sexual predator who had 
been convicted twice before lured her into a house and sexually abused 
her and killed the little girl.
  The gentleman from New York [Mr. Schumer] voted in committee for the 
sexual language and then in conference personally took out that 
language.
  The second item I witnessed last night was Mr. Schumer blaming the 
loss of his bill on others. I say to the gentleman from New York [Mr. 
Schumer] that Megan's parents asked administrators and anyone else to 
get in the face of the people who are weak on this issue and weak on 
crime. We do not want to get in the gentleman's face, but when you have 
$9 billion of socialized spending and your liberal special interest, 
the ACLU, wants you to take out language that would protect the Megans 
of the world, that is the reason why the crime bill failed yesterday.

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