Henry Hyde

I hope the gentleman knows I supported LEAA. I voted for it. I had some concerns and they were good concerns because the LEAA was mismanaged. We correct that in our bill, but I supported LEAA. Did the gentleman know that? I do not think he…

Coerce? Reclaiming my time, coerce is not the same as incentive. And we are providing incentives for them to have--does the gentleman not agree that sentencing someone to 10 years and they get out in 3 is a fraud?

I remember the gentleman was a leader in resisting the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit that was imposed by the Federal Government on the States, and the gentleman was in violent opposition to the Highway Beautification Program. The gentleman…

I must say, it is an issue that has troubled me. I accumulate them, and there is a concern, because they are acquired by flying with Government-paid airfare. However, in 20 years here, I have noticed that this job, this work, creates an…

Reclaiming my time, in the Herrera case, the accused's relative 6 years later came up with an affidavit that said, ``He was with me that night.'' So that was supposed to reopen the case, and that would fit in with Mr. Watt's amendment. The…

How many years would you permit to elapse between the trial and surfacing of this newly discovered evidence?

I do not think it is fair to impose on the system and the families of the victims to have an open-ended appeals process, and that is what the Watt amendment does.

I am saying the rule ought to require you to have exercised due diligence to get all of the evidence that leads to your innocence. That is my point.

I submit to you he should exercise diligence in finding this new evidence, and absent a showing of due diligence, it is an imposition on the whole judicial system and on justice itself because there is merit, real merit, in bringing these…

Let me just say this: I wish you would help us bring these cases to closure. When you have had a trial, a trial that is error free, when you have been convicted beyond all reasonable doubt, and then years later evidence turns up and you…

Well, all I can say is I do not recall the gentleman introducing legislation to dissolve, to dissolve the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. I would think that would be the way to go if what the gentleman is half true.

But there could be an unlawful arrest, however, but made in good faith, under misapprehension of the facts, misapprehension even of the law. But if it is made in good faith as determined by the court under an objectively reasonable…

It would not be a lawful arrest if no crime were being committed and no crime was being committed in exhibiting the gun to his friend. There was no crime.

Let us say he is hugging his wife and the policeman thinks that sexual harassment is going on in front of him. Incident to arresting or halting that, he discovers narcotics. I want that to go into evidence. You want it suppressed.

The present exclusionary rule does not accomplish anything but let the accused go free.

Does the gentleman think suppressing the evidence punishes the policeman who had made an unreasonable search?

I just have a higher regard for the gentlewoman's vote than perhaps the gentlewoman does herself. When you vote for this, you are making a statement you are not going to touch Social Security. I believe you. I believe you.

One must always in justice be able to distinguish the aggressor from those aggressed against.

I do not compare them as people. What I suggest is getting elected does not mean you are a Democrat. That is my point. Hitler was elected in 1933. Aristide was elected but being a Democrat is more than just being elected. If the analogy is…

I congratulate the gentleman from Oklahoma for pressing this issue. This does two good things: First it provides a good college education for some highly motivated young people; and, second, it provides the police forces of our country…

The redefining of a new rule makes for retroactivity and multiple petitions under a lower standard of proof are permissible under the Derrick amendment. This is a giant leap backwards. I am still waiting for Janet Reno's letter…

Not at all. I would hope it would not be, and I would hope that young people struggling with their own identity could get counseling under this amendment so long as the life style of homosexuality is not encouraged, is not encouraged. That…

I just again revert to the language of the amendment offered by the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Hancock]. It says, ``* * * shall implement or carry out a program or activity that has either the purpose,'' and I know the words that trouble…

Mr. Chairman, of course a young man who has an ambivalence ought to be counseled. He needs attention, care. But what this amendment proscribes is encouraging or supporting homosexual lifestyle, and that is different from giving advice and…

I mean, touched with genius but a little oddly shaped. Is it true, let us say RJR Nabisco Holdings pays for my way over to Majorca to address a group of their executives over there and take 7 days in the trip and talk to people about the…