[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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                SUPPORT DUNN-DEAL LANGUAGE IN CRIME BILL

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, I want to talk to the American people for a 
minute about the Dunn-Deal language on sexual predator registration 
tracking and community notification. I have worked hard on this 
language. It came out of Washington State. It has been proven to be 
effective there and constitutional there.
  It went through the Senate. It was approved by a majority, in fact 
unanimously by that body, and by a majority of 407 to 13 here in the 
House of Representatives. The conferees did not put this important 
language into the conference the first time around. So I was one of two 
conferees who sat there and negotiated for 5 hours to get the Dunn-Deal 
sexual predator notification to communities in the crime bill. It is in 
the conference report now.
  I would simply say, Mr. Speaker, that this one small portion, which 
is so important to me, which is in the conference report, does not make 
a basically bad bill good. I urge all my colleagues to vote against 
this report. Dunn-Deal sexual predator community notification is in the 
motion to recommit. It is a free-standing bill. It will be in a 
discharge petition. We will pass it.

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