[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 116 (Wednesday, August 17, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 17, 1994]
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                         CLINTON'S BARNEY BILL

  (Mr. LEWIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from 
North Carolina [Mr. Ballenger].
  Mr. BALLENGER. Madam Speaker, the President never bothered to bring a 
crime bill to Congress when this issue was still being debated.
  Yet once crime became America's primary concern, suddenly, like an 
archeologist, President Clinton went digging to find something he could 
call his own.
  And just like archeologists, the White House unearthed a dinosaur of 
a crime bill.
  It was a huge, lumbering monstrosity weighted down with unneeded 
spending but with a crime-fighting brain about the size of a walnut.
  Not only did the Clinton administration unearth a dinosaur of a crime 
bill, but the dinosaur they got was Barney.
  It was not even a ferocious dinosaur of a crime bill. No, it was a 
big warm, fuzzy, purple one--as soft on crime as the logic that 
billions of dollars for arts and crafts, self-esteem, dance, and 
midnight basketball programs deters murders, rapists, and robbers.
  Americans want a crime bill that will make criminals extinct, not 
taxpayers. The Clinton administration should bury this bill where they 
found it and start over.

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