[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]


[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

 
          AMERICAN PEOPLE TIRED OF PROMISES AND NO PRODUCTION

  (Mr. LIVINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LIVINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, all the charts in the world will not 
change what all the experts recognize and that's that the 100,000 
police officers we are talking about really amount to 20,000 police 
officers, which if spread over the country, mean one additional 
policeman per average city in a 24-hour period. That is not very much 
help in extra manpower for law enforcement.
  The American people are tired of promises with no production. They do 
not believe the President on the crime bill. They do not believe the 
Congress. Collectively we have promised a good crime bill, but we have 
produced only an illusion of effective law enforcement and of 
punishment of violations of the safety and integrity of civilized 
society.
  Mr. Speaker, we have a chance to be straight with the American 
people. Let us reject the fluff and false promises of the product of 
the crime bill conference, and pass a tough, real crime bill. The 
Brewster-Hunter bill provides some hardcore sure punishment for people 
who brake the law, and it should be passed.

                          ____________________