[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 116 (Wednesday, August 17, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: August 17, 1994]
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                   STUFFING THE CRIME BILL WITH PORK

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Madam Speaker, like Santa Claus stuffing a stocking on 
Christmas eve, President Clinton and the Democrat leadership stuffed 
the crime bill with pork.
  The result: a crime bill with over $9 billion in social welfare 
spending. For example, $270 million for social workers, guidance 
counselors, administrators, et cetera, to design social programs; $630 
million for arts, crafts, and music activities; $5 million for youth 
anticrime councils to, and I am not kidding, sit around and talk about 
crime.
  Some estimates are that for every police officer this bill funds, it 
also funds two new social workers. That is not crime fighting. That is 
more Washington, DC, politics as usual.
  Our message to the President and the congressional leadership is 
simple. Let us stop dilly-dallying, cut the pork, put real teeth in 
this bill by really cracking down on criminal thugs, and let us pass a 
crime bill that protects American families instead of creating jobs for 
Government bureaucrats.

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