[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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       ADOPTION OF RECOMMITAL MOTION WOULD KILL CRIME LEGISLATION

  (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute, and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, make no mistake, passage of the motion to 
recommit is the death penalty for an anticrime bill, for three strikes 
and you're out, for $10 billion for prisons, and for 100,000 new cops 
on the beat.
  I hear talk about the need for flexibility in this bill. The cops on 
the beat provision has an aspect that I helped introduce. It says that 
the Attorney General may make grants to States and units of local 
government and multijurisdictional or regional consortia.
  In suburban areas like the one I represent, communities like to join 
together, pool police, and crack down on violence, on gangs, and on 
drug dealers.
  Now the bill provides that these regional task forces can receive 
these Federal grants.
  Mr. Speaker, if Members want flexibility, it is in the bill. This is 
a tough, smart anticrime bill. Anybody who votes for the motion to 
recommit is voting to kill a crime bill this year.

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