[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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                         MORE ON THE CRIME BILL

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, I would just like to suggest to the 
gentleman who just stood here in the well that there is an alternative 
to this. It is called bipartisanship.
  I would like to suggest to the gentleman who was just up here that 
there is an answer to this whole thing about no, no, no, no. It is yes, 
yes, yes, and it is a bipartisan bill. It has been talked about.
  We had one bill in this House since I have been here, I am a 
freshman, one bill that has been partisan. That was the budget bill. We 
have an opportunity now to pass something that both sides of the aisle 
can agree on. There is such a bill. It is a back to basics crime bill, 
including grants to correctional facilities, border enforcement, grants 
to State and local law enforcement, three strikes and you are out, 
punishment of sex offenders, establishes truth in sentencing. And it 
puts and keeps away those criminals that we have not done a thing yet 
in the conversation so far to control crime.
  Let us do something about that. Let us keep the expenditures on 
social programs down to zero. Let us talk about that some other time. 
Let us pass now a bipartisan effort. Let us send this thing back.
  Vote for the motion to recommit. Vote to cut the social spending. Let 
us vote for what America wants. Let us vote for the Brewster bill.

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