[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 29 (Tuesday, February 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1699]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                      THE REPUBLICAN CRIME PACKAGE

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Crime and punishment, it is all the rage here in 
Washington. But if we are going to build a strong foundation to defeat 
crime in America and turn back this tide, it is going to take a little 
site prep like any other building of a foundation.
  This grand new monument to the Republican crime control effort will 
be a tower of concrete on a foundation of sand if we pass this section 
of the crime bill. It is a single-minded rush. It ignores other needs.
  Drugs in the schools? Build prisons. At-risk and abused kids? Build 
prisons. Slow response time? Not enough cops? Build prisons.
  Let us not rush to build symbolic monuments. It will take more to 
turn back the tide of crime in America.

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