[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 118 (Friday, August 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 19, 1994]
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                            FRAUD IS A CRIME

  (Mr. EVERETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EVERETT. Mr. Speaker, in crafting the crime bill one wonders if 
the Democratic leadership forgot some essential elements of the U.S. 
Criminal Code.
  For example, the last time I checked, fraud was still considered a 
crime. And yet the leadership is on the verge of perpetuating not just 
a fraud, but at least an $8 billion fraud on the taxpayers.
  Actually, when you consider that those taxpayers pay our salaries, it 
could almost be considered embezzlement.
  How else can you describe a bill that purports to put 100,000 new 
cops on the street but barely funds 20,000? Or a bill that claims to 
crack down on violent criminals, but actually eliminates mandatory 
sentences for criminals who use guns?
  Here is the granddaddy of them all--they call this a crime bill, but 
it would hire two new social workers for every policeman. Does anybody 
outside the tiny circle of the Democratic leadership actually think 
America's problems is that we need more social workers than cops?
  This bill is a fraud, Mr. Speaker, plain and simple. And the American 
people are not fooled.

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