[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: August 12, 1994]
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                     REPUBLICANS WANT A CRIME BILL

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton last night tried to blame 
the defeat of the rule on the crime bill on the Republicans and the 
NRA. My colleagues, he still does not get the message. Republicans and 
Americans want a crime bill. In fact, 58 Democrats, 25 percent of the 
majority party who voted no, want a crime bill.
  But here is what we and the American people did not want. we have 
been robbed in the streets, we have been robbed in our homes, and now 
we do not want to be ripped off by this Congress. We want punishment, 
not sensitivity training. We want reform of the welfare system that 
spawned this mess, not more social programs. We wanted our hard-earned 
dollars to go for good education and job creation, not dance classes 
and midnight basketball. We want drug felons behind bars, not out on 
our streets. Finally, Mr. Speaker, we want the death penalty, not 
President Clinton's promise to abolish it by Executive order.

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