[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1779]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  HOW ABOUT UNIFORMS FOR DRUG DEALERS?

  (Mr. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, this week, Bill Clinton will be holding 
a forum on youth, crime, and drugs. My hometown of Omaha, NE, saw 
juvenile arrests for major crimes spike by 20 percent last year. In 
fact, by last year alone juveniles accounted for almost half of all the 
major crimes. In Omaha, there were 41 killings, 8 more than in 1994. We 
even lost one of our police officers to this tide of crime.
  Unfortunately, President Clinton is AWOL on the war on drugs. He 
passed a hug-a-thug crime bill with funding for dance lessons for 
criminals, and then he cut funding for his own drug czar by 84 percent. 
His top public health official once suggested that we should legalize 
illicit drugs.
  Instead the liberals are focused on another reform: uniforms for 
students. Mr. Speaker, I think that is a great idea, but I fully 
support it at the local level, not the Federal Department of Education 
level.
  But I support another uniform as well: orange prison jump suits for 
those drug dealers and violent felons terrorizing our communities; as 
my colleagues know, the drug dealers and violent felons that get off on 
technicalities because of slick criminal trial lawyers. Hopefully, we 
can come together with this Youth Crime Violence League and we can come 
up with a bipartisan answer to solve America's problems together.

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