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…

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

Mr. Chairman, I am impressed that we want to be as efficient as possible, and I do, too, because it will save money. I want to make a couple of points. The first is that this is probably the fastest growing industry in our economy…

And the other thing that bothers me: The gentleman raised the name of Professor Wilson, who is a great scholar of criminal justice but whose ideas and mine occasionally comport, and just as often they probably do not. So, as my colleagues…

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…

What it does is it says, and since the gentleman does not have one, I will be glad to read these provisions, that any remaining unallocated funds which have been available for more than 2 fiscal years shall be transferred by the Attorney…

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.

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

if we are not willing to spend one-tenth of 1 percent to find out where $10 billion is going in terms of programs, construction, and effectiveness, I do not know how anybody could support this program without having this one safety…

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…

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…

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.

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…

H.R. 729 is the latest in a series of legislative proposals dating back a decade that have attempted to speed up the execution of the more than 2,300 people on death row in this country. The common thread in these proposals is imposing a…

What we have here in this full and fair concept is a throwback to an outmoded idea first advanced in the other body that would effectively end all rights of habeas corpus, if minimal State guarantees are satisfied. In other words, there…

there is a major omission in the bill that goes to the heart of due process and fundamental fairness: An innocent man should never be executed. The McCollum bill gives a criminal defendant ``one bite at the apple'' but would not permit any…

Sixty-three years ago, in Powell versus Alabama, the case involving the Scottsboro boys, the Supreme Court established as a constitutional principle that indigent defendants would not be sentenced to death unless they were represented by…

Mr. Chairman, to the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde], our chairman, I would have him remember that the exclusionary rule was put in place to make sure that the police behave rather than allowing 'anything goes,' and then we have years…

I simply want to point out the fact that as we move through this process, we are beginning to bring to the floor six bills that comprised the Contract With America crime legislation that the Republicans, when we took over as the majority…

Mr. Chairman, the gentleman's, my friend's explanation is a little disingenuous. This is the mother of all warrantless searches that we have before us and will ultimately, I predict, be found unconstitutional because we put the objective…

And what that means then is that the gentleman's bill itself will soon be rendered unconstitutional. And I think that this proposal, which repeats the fourth amendment, will likely stand. What we would not do is sanctify warrantless…

What the gentleman from Pennsylvania has proved here today is he cannot tell us why he would change the existing law, which I am codifying by amendment in the Leon case. He does not have an example, because we have already given dozens of…

this is the fourth amendment to the Constitution. I have never remembered voting on it, Mr. Chairman, and what happens here is that the reason that he had to replace it in its entirety is that there is a great likelihood that the McCollum…

I am very happy that the gentlewoman has again put her finger on precisely what is in difference over this H.R. 666. Because we have now, and I think the other side will agree, we have all kinds of exceptions written into the exclusionary…