[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 12, 1994]
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                 LET US PRESENT A BIPARTISAN CRIME BILL

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, we are at a crossroads where there is an 
opportunity, I believe, to set a new tone and undertake a new direction 
for the rest of this Congress.
  It is clear that yesterday's vote to return the crime bill to the 
conference committee, to reject the rule, is an opportunity either for 
the Clinton administration to try to twist arms and find a few more 
votes without change, or take a big step toward bipartisanship, go back 
into the conference, write a better bill, and with our help, have a 
bipartisan effort to bring that bill to the floor.
  I simply want to rise today to urge the Democratic leadership of the 
Congress and the President to take the bipartisan route, to accept the 
vote yesterday of the House, to sit down and let us reopen the 
conference. Let us write a better crime bill. Let us bring it to the 
floor together on a bipartisan basis, and let us pass it by a big 
majority.
  Then let us approach health in the same kind of open and bipartisan 
manner.

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