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Almost 4 million women were physically abused by their husbands or boyfriends in the last year. We owe it to those abused women to take a stand against domestic violence. Domestic violence accounts for more than one-third of all emergency…
I rise in support of this point of order. This is an unfunded mandate. One billion to municipalities cost $13 billion nationwide. We agreed to live under the same laws as what we passed. We must live under the laws that we have passed in…
I think I need to reiterate what the gentleman from Florida said. We are certainly not against women. We certainly are for increasing penalties against repeat offenders that are committing rape in this country. I just believe that this is…
Certainly the 103d Congress did pass the 1994 crime bill and this was part of the 1994 crime bill. It was a recommendation or a suggestion that they increase the penalties. If there was a recommendation that came back to the committee…
We are just trying to offer good legislation, trying to take the most vulnerable people in our society and protect them and take the biggest cowards in our society and put them in jail.
The answer is that in the 1994 crime bill, it was suggested that they increase the penalties. The commission chose not to do that. That is why this legislation is necessary.
We voted last year, I would say to my colleague, the gentleman from Michigan, just last year we voted on the Barton amendment that had a two-thirds provision in it in the balanced budget amendment. Then we did, in fact, vote to have this…
We need to stop the duplication of the Government programs and get rid of this Government-knows-best attitude here in Washington, DC, because the American people cannot afford it any longer.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to make the point, the question is really this: Mr. President, why did you not submit the balanced budget that you submitted on January 6 on December 15, and then the Federal Government would not have been shut…
Obviously, Mr. Speaker, when people borrow money they are expected to pay it back. Certainly when lawyers start lining their pockets based on technicalities to keep people from having to pay those funds back, then it is time for the…
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