[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 29 (Tuesday, February 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1700]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             PARTY POLITICS

  (Mr. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, the debate on the crime bill is a choice 
between the President's 100,000 cops program and the Republican's pork 
``do whatever you want with the money'' program for the States. 
Republicans are putting politics over public safety. They want to 
dismantle the community police program that our cities and small towns 
and our police officers need to fight crime.
  They want to deny the President the credit he deserves for a program 
that has great support among America's police officers, has already 
provided 17,000 new police officers in 4 months, has benefited small 
towns. Just last week the Justice Department announced that 6,500 small 
towns have gotten 7,100 new police officers, no matter how small the 
town.
  Mr. Speaker, it takes one page to fill out an application for a 
police officer and a decision can be made in less than 4 weeks.
  Mr. Speaker, let us put cops over pork.
  

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