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…

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…

Mr. Chairman, it is only when you get into the successive petitions after you have already had regular appeals and you have already had your first-time shot at this on guilt or innocence or anything else that the issue arises that the…

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 just want to say, implicit in this amendment as well as in the last one, is a denigration of the Federal bench; an assertion that they are incapable of judging whether an acquisition of evidence was in good faith, by an objectively…

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.

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.

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 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…

the 1994 Omnibus Crime Control Act was not so omnibus. It did nothing for the victims of crime. This bill remembers that crime has victims; this bill remembers that the victims for too long have been forgotten in the sentencing process…

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.

I just want to disagree with my good friend, the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Conyers]. The exclusionary rule is not wiped out. It is changed from the way it is presently administered. But if the evidence is offered and an unreasonable…

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

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…

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.

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

it is clear, judging from the minority party's reactions, that our quest to achieve a balanced budget has already encountered fierce resistance. This is evidenced by the cascade of amendments they have offered to the legislation barring…

Mr. Foley. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong support of the constitutional amendment to balance our budget and especially the Barton amendment with the three-fifths provision. Almost 180 years ago, Mr. Chairman, Thomas Jefferson, a man…

I just want to say as to the supermajority on raising taxes: When the government expands its power from one level of gross domestic product to another in terms of its fiscal reach, that ought to be an extraordinary decision because we are…

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.

I would just suggest to my friends who think this is a waste of time and the equivalent of a commemorative resolution, that they vote ``no.'' They put their money where their mouth is and vote ``no'' on this and send a message that they…

it is always a stimulating experience to hear the learned gentleman from California [Mr. Dellums] speak on any subject, particularly on this one. I would just like to respond to a few of the things he said. ``Choose no sides.'' That is the…

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

I just fail to see what is moral about disarming one side in a combat. I have trouble rationalizing that. Madam Chairman, In our time we have seen the phrase ``ethnic cleansing'' enter the vocabulary of hate--a description even Hitler…