[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 115 (Tuesday, August 16, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 16, 1994]
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                          LET US PREVENT CRIME

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I thought it might be fun to just come 
and put a few facts out here about the crime bill.
  The fact is when the crime bill passed the House the first time, it 
had half a billion dollars more, more in prevention spending than it 
had when it failed last week. And 65 Members on the other side voted 
for that.
  So it was out.
  We were lower on the violence against women Act. Guess what? The bill 
we turned down last week had more money for that. We also passed in 
this House an assault weapons ban, which I think a reasonably prudent 
American would think belonged in a crime bill.
  So we have a crime bill that I think makes an inordinate amount of 
sense, adds all sorts of new punishment--in fact, we have had Members 
say they could not take all that punishment--but it also deals with the 
prevention part because until you deal with the prevention part, you 
are not going to stop crime in America.
  Of the crimes committed in America today, 91 percent they never make 
an arrest for. So if you can work on that end, we are going to have 
much safer streets.
  That is why this was such a smart bill. How tragic it is we did not 
have it passed.

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