[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
[Senate]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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             PASSING A CRIME BILL FROM HELL ON THE SABBATH

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, here we are on the Sabbath and instead of 
keeping it holy we are here to pass a crime bill from hell, one that 
has little vision, little originality and little more than politics as 
usual, and a bill that has neither been read nor seen.
  But there is an alternative good bipartisan bill. The Brewster back-
to-basics bill will fund new prison constructions, new police officers, 
and cut prison perks like TV's. It puts prisoners to work. This is the 
bill that the folks in the town meetings have been talking about.
  Criminals need arraignment, not entertainment. Let us support the 
Brewster back-to-basics bill and go home and teach those Sunday school 
classes we all brag so much about in our brochures. Let us remember 
that this is the Sabbath, and maybe do a little more praying and a 
little less politics.

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