[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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                 THERE'S A LOT OF FAT IN THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, whether you call it chicken or pork, one 
thing is certain, there is an awful lot of fat in this bill. We should 
send this bill back to the conference and do what is right, and today 
we finally have the opportunity to do that by supporting a 100-percent 
fat-free bill--no pork, no chicken. Give the American people what they 
want, that is, to support the Brewster-Hunter alternative.
  Let us vote against the rule. Vote for the motion to recommit if the 
rule should pass and give the people grants to correctional facilities, 
grants to States to pay for prisons, grants to State and local law 
enforcement, border enforcement, punishment of sex offenders, 
abolishment of country-club comforts for inmates, establishing truth-
in-sentencing, and establishing mandatory penalties for offenses with 
firearms.
  These are the things the American people want, not the rest of what 
is in the President's bill. Send it back.

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