[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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             WHAT HAS CAUSED THE CRIME WAVE IN OUR COUNTRY?

  (Mr. DORNAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DORNAN. Good morning, Mr. Speaker. How are you today?
  I am pleased that we are going to be adjourning at some point this 
afternoon and heading back to our districts for about 3 weeks. Maybe 
they will give us back a little of the week that they have stolen from 
us, the leadership.
  I think we are going to learn a lot from our constituents, our 
taxpayers, that, yes, they wanted a crime bill, a crime bill to fund 
criminals.
  Now, the gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter] and I were having 
breakfast together two mornings ago with a grandmother of nine, mother 
of five, happens to be my wife, Sally, and she looked at the two of us 
as she gave us our waffles and said, ``Why can't we have a clean crime 
bill on prisons and criminals and take all the rest out and argue it in 
separate bills like the gun bill?'' And Duncan looked at me and said, 
``What do you think?''
  He called his staff. Eventually, the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. 
Brewster] was on board, and that is going to be a fascinating vote.
  I am going to do a 5-minute before I go home this evening, Mr. 
Speaker. I am going to bring up something I have thought about for 35 
years: What has caused the crime wave in our country of violence, 
conservative philosophy or liberal philosophy?

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