[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 117 (Thursday, August 18, 1994)]
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         PARTISAN POLITICS HOLDING UP ACTION ON THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. COLLINS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the 
gentlewoman from Connecticut that some of Mr. Bush's remarks are the 
reason he is not president any longer. Maybe Mr. Clinton ought to take 
a lesson from such.
  Mr. Speaker, the crime bill has turned to 100 percent politics. That 
is right, the debate has turned from locking up criminals to locking up 
votes--votes on this House floor and votes in November.
  Mr. Speaker, the message from the people of the Third District of 
Georgia is that they want criminals locked up. They want them 
prosecuted, and they want them punished. They are tired of partisan 
politics coming from the White House and from this House. The vote on 
the rule last week to stop the crime bill was a strong bipartisan vote 
and was a true representation of the wishes of the people of this 
country.

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