[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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                          PASS THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. MEEHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
   Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, before I got elected to the Congress, I was 
the first assistant district attorney of Middlesex County. I oversaw a 
county with 13,000 criminal cases a year. I am shocked at how little 
Members of Congress really know about crime. To call pork efforts to 
put victim witness advocates into courts across this country, to help 
women who have been battered by abusers, to call that pork is an 
outrage. I think every Member of Congress that does not have the 
courage to stand up on this bill ought to spend a month during the 
recess in a district attorney's office across this country and learn 
what real crime is all about.
  Let us pass this bill today, forget the bickering and get something 
done on this issue. I, for one, as someone who has prosecuted violent 
crime, am tired of the rhetoric I have heard all across this country. 
Let us pass this bill and get it done today.

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