[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 119 (Saturday, August 20, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 20, 1994]
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                    COST OF THE NO-CRIME CRIME BILL

  (Mr. BAKER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BAKER of California. Mr. Speaker, what are Republicans thinking 
about? In the no-crime crime bill, is it the $33 billion in debt, 
totally unfunded, that we like, that will cost us $100 billion over 30 
years that we do not have, for our grandchildren? Lee Hamilton, the 
Democrat chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs calls the funding 
``phony.'' Could it be the no-crime crime bill that they like? Or the 
fact we are weakening existing law and taking away mandatory minimums 
for using a gun, or for selling drugs and poisoning our children? Is 
that what we Republicans went?

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  How about the sexual predators that they turned into a privacy act 
for perverts? Is that what we Republicans want? We 40 wandering few; 
100,000 policemen became 44,000 welfare workers. Is that what we 
Republicans want? No prisons unless we run ballet programs and training 
programs for jobs. Hug a thug. Let us stop this gross bill. Let us do 
what we did last week and kill it, as it so richly deserves.

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