[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 13 (Monday, January 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H492-H493]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        A CRIME BILL WITH TEETH

  (Mr. BARR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARR. Mr. Speaker, at the beginning of this session, I introduced 
with several of my colleagues The Taking Back Our Streets Act of 1995. 
Last 
[[Page H493]] week, my colleagues and I on the Judiciary Committee's 
Crime Subcommittee completed 2 days of hearings on this bill.
  These hearings, which featured law enforcement officials from across 
the country, revealed how desperately this legislation is needed. There 
is an overwhelming sense in this country that violent crime has robbed 
the citizens of a sense of safety and security that they have a right 
to enjoy. That is what my crime bill will help accomplish.
  Not too long ago, a popular preventive crime ad campaign encouraged 
citizens to take ``A Bite Out of Crime.'' After decades of one 
Democratic-controlled Congress after another jawboning the problem of 
crime with lots of taxpayer money but little to show in the way of 
results, we are finally on the way to passing a crime bill with real 
teeth.

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