[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 117 (Thursday, August 18, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 18, 1994]
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           TEN REASONS WHY REPUBLICANS OPPOSE THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, we all want a crime bill, but we have a 
different vision of what a crime bill ought to look like. So, why do 
the Republicans oppose the President's version of a crime bill? Let me 
give my colleagues ten reasons:
  No. 1, inadequate funding for building prisons;
  No. 2, inadequate funding for hiring more cops on the beat;
  No. 3, weakened sexual predators provision;
  No. 4, various pork-barrel projects, including $10 million for Lamar 
University located in Chairman Brooks' district;
  No. 5, may result in the release of 10,000 convicted drug felons;
  No. 6, does not include victims restitution provisions of Senate-
passed bill;
  No. 7, does not include strengthened death penalty procedures to end 
endless appeals process;
  No. 8, does not include tough penalties for violent juvenile gang 
offenses;
  No. 9, includes $9 billion in repetitive, wasteful social welfare 
spending; and
  No. 10, Republicans were not included in this process, nor did they 
even know until the report came to the table what was going to be in 
it.
  Mr. Speaker, there are 10 reasons, and we could give many more, of 
why Republicans do not share the President's vision of what a crime 
bill ought to look like.

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