Harold Volkmer: “today I introduced an anticrime bill that is aimed at curbing the rising tide of crime in this country by getting our…”

“today I introduced an anticrime bill that is aimed at curbing the rising tide of crime in this country by getting our most violent criminals and drug dealers off the streets for good. My legislation is a ``three strikes and you're out'' bill that will put violent criminals and drug dealers away for life--no exceptions--if they have three felony convictions. Every law-abiding American is sick and tired of hearing horror stories of convicted violent felons released on parole committing unspeakable acts of violence and drug dealers getting off easy. Our inability to keep the most violent felons and drug dealers in jail is a serious problem that we must address now. President Clinton strongly supports ``three strikes and you're out'' and so do many of our colleagues. Let us act now and send a strong message to murderers and drug dealers that we will not tolerate this any longer. Let's make ``three strikes and you're out'' the law of the land.”