[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
[Senate]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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 PROPOSED MOTION TO RECOMMIT WOULD PROVIDE A BARE BONES ANTICRIME BILL

  (Mr. CUNNINGHAM asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute, and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, let me answer the question of my 
colleague, the gentleman who just spoke.
  First, there are a lot of us that wanted the $1.8 million for the 
violence against women put into the motion to recommit in the Brewster-
Hunter bill. A lot of us wanted the death penalty language in there as 
well. We wanted a lot of things.
  This bill is not comprehensive. What we are asking for is a bare 
bones minimum. This is a crime bill. We are looking at the heart of the 
crime issues and putting those things in there.
  For example, the Dunn-Deal language on sexual predators is included. 
We also put the Susan Molinari language for rape victims in there. 
There are other things that we are saying are for socialized spending, 
and if those who stand for that on principle and want to put it in 
there, let us have an opportunity to vote on it. As to the gun language 
in there, it does not kill the assault weapons ban in there. It is 
still alive in the Senate.
  Mr. Speaker, what we are looking at is the bare bones minimum, with 
no pork, no matter how we define it.
  So we decided we were going to put these things in there and have a 
vote on it.


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