[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 117 (Friday, August 2, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H9839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   DEMOCRATS STAND WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT; REPUBLICANS RUN AWAY FROM IT

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, evidently today we will vote on an 
antiterrorism bill. No one knows what is in it. The Committee on Rules 
passed a blank check bill. It has not even been printed, but we know 
one thing for sure.
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will yield, I will be glad 
to tell him what is in it.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, I will yield only on the gentleman's time. 
I am going to say what I think, and he can tell everyone what is in it.
  We know what will not be in it: the two things law enforcement 
requested, roving multipoint wiretaps and taggants to trace black 
powder explosives. These are the two things that law enforcement 
wanted. These are the two things the Republican majority will not put 
in this bill.
  It is a rerun of the last antiterrorism bill, where they could not 
bring themselves to do what the law enforcement people wanted. There 
has been a big reversal, my fellow Americans. Democrats stand with law 
enforcement, Republicans are running away from it.
  The bill today will be a weak Milquetoast bill just like the one we 
passed 3 months ago, and the only people who will suffer will be the 
American people.

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