[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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    CRIME BILL IS WELL BALANCED, RECEIVES SUPPORT FOR MYRIAD REASONS

  (Mr. TORRICELLI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute, and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, in the passage of the crime bill, 
Members across the aisle will be celebrating the stand that we have 
taken but fundamentally for different reasons. For some of us the 
building of prisons, and the hiring of new police officers, and the 
banning of assault weapons will be an important stand. But the Members 
on the other side of the aisle will be cheering because they have taken 
away some of the prevention measures, as if doing away with mandatory 
spending on boys' clubs and the chances for some for recreation and a 
summer job is a victory for crime prevention.
  Do they not understand that for every young man we put in jail four 
others will take their place? As long as poverty is the rule for the 
young in America, do they not understand that until there is some basic 
recreation and some opportunities and options in life in the cities, 
there will be 10 waiting in line for every drug dealer we ever put in 
jail?
  A balanced crime prevention bill is incarceration, it is more police, 
it is gun control, but it is also doing something about the quality of 
life and opportunities in America.
  Mr. Speaker, we cheer this bill for different reasons.

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