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

  (Mr. HUGHES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUGHES. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Connecticut had it right 
today. Let us lower the rhetoric today. This morning when we broke up 
in conference, we had all the material that every Republican on the 
conference committee could read. We did not move ahead until that 
material was available. It is not voluminous. It is something you can 
read in about a half-hour, three-quarters of an hour. It is available. 
It is being presented to both sides.
  Mr. Speaker, I keep hearing pork, chicken. That is not what it is all 
about. Up until about 1 this morning, the NRA was still trying to twist 
arms and work over Members to try to prevent this initiative from 
moving ahead. They have weighed in very heavily. Ask any law 
enforcement officer about the so-called pork. Most of this in the bill 
has to do with law enforcement, prison construction and operation. It 
does not have to do with prevention. On the prevention side, for 
instance, one of the things they keep referring to as pork is 
developing alternatives for youthful offenders so that sentencing 
judges have more options. Ask your law enforcement officers. That is 
not pork. That is responsible legislating.

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