[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 17, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10439]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        THE NATION'S POLICE ARE FIRMLY IN THE PRESIDENT'S CORNER

  (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, yesterday President Clinton received the 
endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police, an organization that 
represents the sizable majority of our country's policy officers.
  President Clinton is the first Democrat running for President or 
being President endorsed by this organization. The endorsement came 
because of the President's strong anticrime, antidrug policies and 
initiatives for his tough sentencing policies, for community policing, 
100,000 cops on the street.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to say that the president of the FOP is Gil 
Gallegos of Albuquerque, NM. So, Mr. Speaker, despite all this lofty 
rhetoric that the President is soft on crime, I am proud to say that 
the Nation's police officers are firmly in the President's corner.

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