[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 115 (Tuesday, August 16, 1994)]
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                   WHAT THE CRIME BILL IS AND IS NOT

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, the President's credibility is being 
stretched beyond the breaking point, far beyond the debate over the 
crime bill. Let us remember that this is the administration that began 
by calling a tax a contribution, by calling spending an investment, and 
now we see a social welfare bill being called an anticrime bill, and 
the message is getting out to the American people.
  Eight billion dollars in this anticrime bill is for arts and crafts, 
midnight basketball and other social welfare spending, all in the name 
of being anticrime, this at the same time when we are being told a 
hundred thousand new policemen are going to be put on the streets, yet 
we realize that only 20,000 policemen will be put on the street 
temporarily by this bill when all of that social welfare spending that 
I just mentioned is permanent by this bill.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people can see what is in this bill and 
what is not in this bill. They can see that the provisions I worked for 
strenuously to deport criminal illegal aliens once they have served 
their term, that was taken out of the bill, as were other very heavy 
law enforcement, strong law enforcement, issues. Instead what we have 
is a social welfare bill that is being mislabeled, and I say, ``If you 
believe that taxation is nothing more than a contribution, you'll 
believe this is an anticrime bill.''

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