[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]
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                       WHY THE RULE WAS DEFEATED

  (Mr. WALKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, I agree with the gentleman from Florida that 
what needs to happen here is the crime bill needs to go back to 
conference and we need to get out a crime bill that the majority of the 
House can support, that is a tough bill on crime.
  I was a little concerned to hear the President of the United States 
suggest that what happened on the floor yesterday was a procedural 
trick. This was not a procedural trick. The only procedural trick was 
being done by the Democrats in bringing it out in a rule in the first 
place.
  The fact is they could have brought the whole conference report to 
the floor without ever going to the Committee on rules. The reason why 
they knew they could not do that is because there were things in the 
conference report that were subject to points of order on the House 
floor that would have immediately sent the bill back to conference.
  The entire conference report was flawed because of the procedural 
tricks that went on within the conference. What they were trying to do 
was cover their tails with what went on in the Committee on Rules, and 
they cold not get it done on the House floor.
  The President needs to be informed that what was happening here was 
that his own party voted unanimously in the Committee on Rules to try 
to cover up the procedural tricks that were done in the conference. We 
should have less of that. Let us bring bills to the floor that are 
clean so that we can all vote on them clean.

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