[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 116 (Thursday, September 9, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H8004]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   YOU DO THE CRIME, YOU DO THE TIME

  (Mr. WISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WISE. Madam Speaker, I agree. When the President is right, I 
stand with him; but I also have to speak out when I believe he is 
wrong.
  Now I oppose the President's act of granting clemency to terrorists. 
The acts that these people were convicted of are not necessarily all 
that they would have been involved in. Often a U.S. Attorney in order 
to get a conviction will bring those cases that are most evident, where 
the evidence is best, even though there were other cases that could 
have been brought.
  The only authority of the law is when wrongdoers know that the 
penalty will be fully carried out. This becomes doubly important in the 
act of terrorism because it is also essential to remove those people as 
quickly as possible from the scene so they cannot carry out other 
groups and so we send a message internationally.
  Madam Speaker, these people were part of a group that brought death 
and destruction. They maimed police officers. They should serve the 
entire term.
  There is an old saying: ``You do the crime, you do the time,'' and 
that applies to this situation especially.

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