[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 118 (Friday, August 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 19, 1994]
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                             THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. KLEIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KLEIN. Mr. Speaker, it is time for the crime bill to be 
resurrected and brought to the floor of the House for a vote.
  Violent crime is the scourge of this Nation. More than anything else, 
Americans want us to take decisive action to fight crime. We must stop 
looking at criminals as victims and recognize that we, the law-abiding 
citizens, are the victims. We stand on the threshold of passing the 
strongest, toughest crime bill in our history.
  But special interests continue to hold this crime bill hostage in a 
desperate attempt to kill a ban on military style assault weapons that 
are the weapons of choice of drug dealers and criminals. We must not 
bow to special interests. We cannot let children die on the streets to 
appease the NRA.
  We have an opportunity to put 100,000 more cops on the streets, to 
build more prisons for dangerous criminals to curb the flow of drugs 
into the country and, yes, to ban these assault weapons. Let us stop 
the rhetoric on crime. Let us do something about it.

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