Political Quotes

“I simply rise to point out, as chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, that there are three contract with America crime bills that are incorporated in this today. The three that are in this bill that were contract with America bills are, one, a provision that would end the so-called prevention programs of Washington knows best that were in the 1994 crime act that many of us complained about. Instead in its place in this bill and in this legislation are a block grant to the cities and the counties of this country to spend as they see fit to fight crime to the tune of about $500 million for this coming year. In addition we have the version in the contract with America of the prison grant program that will ensure an incentive for truth in sentencing for States to have laws passed that require the serving of 85 percent of their sentence of all felons. And last but by no means least, we have a provision in this bill which will mean that the States get back control of their prisons, that Federal judges no longer will be able to have the rulings they have been having on overcrowding. We lift the caps. We change the consent decrees.”