[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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                JOIN THE BREWSTER-HUNTER BIPARTISAN BILL

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, the question is now whether we want a 
tough crime bill. The question is which bill which we will be voting on 
today is a tough crime bill and which is a social welfare spending 
bill. The President's so-called crime bill has been wrong in substance 
and has been handled in an incompetent and corrupt fashion. Otherwise 
there would not have been a session here last night in the wee hours of 
the morning in order to pass a procedural rule without us having a 
chance to have our say on it or even know that we were in session.
  I urge my colleagues to join with a bipartisan effort of the 
gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Brewster] and the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Hunter], and I urge my colleagues to oppose the Clinton 
bill. It is loaded with social welfare spending, and let me note this, 
that we have taxed away so much money from our local people that now, 
in order to build more prisons and hire more people, they have to ask 
for money from the Federal Government. Well, the Brewster-Hunter 
amendment says we will give it back to them because we took it from 
them in the first place. The President's bill, loaded with social 
welfare spending, says, ``yes,'' we will give some money back for 
prisons, but they have got to use it exactly the way we tell them to 
use it.

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