John Conyers

The reason the President has said that he is going to veto anything that disturbs his community policing program is that he made the commitment 2 years ago. He got the bill through on the bipartisan basis last year. It was enjoyed 5…

It would do more than that. It would destroy this program. It would end the current crime bill law which is the law of the land as we speak.

We now have 17,000 policemen on the job or are in the process of being hired throughout our large cities, and then around through the smaller cities, and there are more on the way.

I just want the former speaker to realize that the block grant program is a copy of the Local Partnership Act that I introduced into the crime bill that was so widely lambasted by Speaker Gingrich, the majority leader, the gentleman from…

I would ask the gentleman, which entity would not get the money if they did not agree? Would they not all be eligible for a certain amount of money anyway?

Of course, the gentleman understands the difference between leaving this in a block grant where it competes against an infinite number of others; the question is whether he feels convinced of the importance of this so as to lift it out of…

What we want to do, sir, is promote you. You have done a great job. You deserve this. And what you're doing is isolating this out, putting a lot more language around it. Remember, this is not a raw experiment any more. It is proven…

I thank the gentleman. His explanation has been thorough and quite convincing. The fact of the matter is that we have permitted this in the bill, and what we are doing is putting a money amount to it.

Under those circumstances, I think that this is an amendment that we cannot resist.

That is why we have measures brought to the floor. We go through the committee hearings, we go through the markup, then we come to the floor and then you say, ``Well, perhaps there is something to matches and we'll put one in. So, look…

After hearing all your rhetoric against matching, I am glad that we at least have a point of agreement here. I guess that means that all of the discussion and debate against matching funds in the crime bill was not as important or valid as…

And so, even if we accept, or if the Schiff amendment passes, it does not change the underlying problem that has been raised in committee about protecting reproductive health clinics. We cannot get around it, my colleagues. We have got to…

I hope the gentlewoman will continue to offer the same provision she offered in the committee, because we need to have it clearly discussed and debated on the floor.

I have looked this amendment over, and there is no problem with directing a study to be completed, within 6 months back to us, about the prisoner transfer treaty with Mexico, and so on this side we would be delighted to accept the…

The Treasury Department's gang resistance education amendment is a worthy program, and I think the amount is small enough so that, if it is deleted from prison construction legislation, there will be no great harm done. It is not like we…

The name that the gentleman will come to love is the National Institute of Justice for law enforcement technology programs.

Let me point out to the gentleman that has just spoken that this is a heck of a way to run a railroad. We legislate $10 billion for prisons and then we say, well, if there is any left over, let us use it for courthouses and other expenses…

I do not know if this will make my colleague from North Carolina more comfortable or less, but it is our prediction that this will be a large amount of money that will be reserved, because I do not believe the States are going to qualify…

The reason why is because we just simply are worried about adequate resources for our own Federal purposes here. Prevention programs would normally be the kind of programs we are going to deal with on Monday and Tuesday for money going to…

I think we ought to have immigration laws that prevent people from effectively coming in illegally as opposed to what we do with them after they get in.

I have to reclaim my time because what we are doing again is that we at the Federal level are now telling local government how to treat juveniles. Juveniles are under the State and local criminal law, and so, if we do not create Federal…

Reclaiming my time, this puts us into the business of creating Federal law for juveniles in every city across America----

It would allow boot camps, not prevention programs but at least boot camps for helping relieve those who would be coming in as nonviolent offenders and youthful people.

In addition, look what we have done just in today's debate alone. We have rejected the only amendment that would give us a carryover that would allow a few years for the States to get ready for your draconian proposal because you have…

I want the gentleman to know that this is a very real life, commonsense, practical amendment that I hope both sides can agree to, because it is really important to know that out there in the world there are these kinds of threats of ``what…