Pete Domenici: “I congratulate him on the speech in terms of content of the message and the way it was delivered. Obviously, the…”

“I congratulate him on the speech in terms of content of the message and the way it was delivered. Obviously, the President is very good at that and I am sure he knows it. And I am sure the American people appreciated the speech in terms of raising their spirits. I choose today just to take a few minutes to talk about one aspect of the President's speech that I agree with. That has to do with violent crime by our teenagers and young people. First of all, I am convinced that we have an opportunity, because of this President, to adopt some very, very tough but, as he said, smart new laws with reference to crime; crime prevention in particular with reference to violent crime. But I am concerned, while the President is for 'three times and you are out'--meaning with a third felony of a violent nature you get life imprisonment and you do not get out--I am concerned that there are other provisions of the crime bill that the Senate passed that are very good and at least implicitly the President supports, but I am not at all sure that the Democratic majority in the House is not going to do what they have done on several other occasions when a crime bill is sent to them.”