[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
[Senate]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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               THREE MAJOR THINGS THAT WILL REDUCE CRIME

  (Mr. ARCHER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, this bill is loaded with a large amount of 
expenditure of the workers' tax dollars in this country.
  It is interesting that when emotions rise up in America about a 
problem, the answer from this body in this capital is send more 
billions of dollars at the problem. That is not the efficient way to 
solve the problem, and in the end, this bill that is being offered 
today will not have any measurable impact on crime other than to make 
people feel good that they did something.
  If the Federal Government really wanted to do something to affect 
crimes and reduce it, they would do three major things: They would 
address habeas corpus and eliminate the endless appeals that keep 
people on death row for 15 years without execution; they would change 
the exclusionary rule so that evidence that could prove guilt could be 
admitted in the courtroom instead of being denied on technicalities; 
and they would get the Federal Government out of running the 
penitentiary systems of the States in this country, and none of that is 
in this bill.

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