Newt Gingrich: “once again there is a huge gap between the words of the Clinton administration and the deeds of the Clinton…”

“once again there is a huge gap between the words of the Clinton administration and the deeds of the Clinton administration. President Clinton comes to this floor and talks about fighting crime. The Clinton budget in the largest single program it proposes to kill is killing the Burn Memorial Fund which grants aid to local police to fight drugs and violent crime. The Clinton budget stops at $86 million in drug interdiction against the southern border. The Clinton administration budget has 25 percent more for lawyers in the Legal Services Corporation, but less to stop the flow of drugs. It is very disappointing that at a time when 65 Americans are being murdered every day, at a time when 979 convicted felons are being released early every day, at a time when 14 percent of convicted rapists serve zero days in jail and 28 percent of convicted aggravated assault felons serve zero days in jail to see such inaction, such cutting of anticrime money, and to see a budget that falls so short of what we need to fight crime in America.”