[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 14, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4908]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       THE COMMUNITY RENEWAL ACT

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, today, under the leadership of my good 
friends, the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Watts] and the gentleman from 
Missouri [Mr. Talent], a bipartisan coalition will introduce the 
American Community Renewal Act of 1996.
  The bill reflects a critically important understanding that 
government must stop being the enemy of the family. Nowhere has the 
destructive power of the arrogant Federal bureaucracy caused greater 
harm than in our heavily urban areas, such as my district in 
Cincinnati.
  The Federal Government cannot be a substitute for strong families and 
vibrant neighborhoods. Instead, we must work to unleash the creative 
energies and the talents of all Americans, including especially those 
Americans least equipped to overcome government-erected barriers to 
economic success. The Community Renewal Act will provide parents of 
needy children greater choice in education. It will recognize that 
religious groups can be valuable colleagues in arms in the war against 
drugs, and it will help to promote individual entrepreneurship in areas 
where government heretofore has smothered it.
  Mr. Speaker, I applaud the introduction of the legislation and 
encourage its adoption.

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