Fred Heineman

I introduced H.R. 3852, the Comprehensive Methamphetamine Control Act of 1996 because of the growing scourge of meth. Senator Hatch introduced companion legislation, S. 1965, which passed the Senate earlier this month. Meth, commonly known…

Today, Congress has its opportunity to speak out against the ignorant and cowardly actions of the antireligious bigots who participated in burning the churches of both black and white Americans. Unfortunately, as a former law enforcement…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2650, the Mandatory Federal Prison Drug Treatment Act, restores equity in the way the Federal Bureau of Prisons administers its very successful drug treatment program. H.R. 2650 is an example of bipartisan legislation at…

Mr. Speaker, on November 16, 1995, I introduced H.R. 2650, the Mandatory Federal Prison Drug Treatment Act, to restore equity in the way the Federal Bureau of Prisons [BOP] administers its very successful drug treatment program. This…

today I rise for two purposes: first, to inform my colleagues that H.R. 125 has been substantially changed through language that I was privileged to include in the bill yesterday; second, to explain why this language improves this…

earlier today, I stood in opposition to the Barr amendment as I would on any amendment that compromises the health and safety of police officers. The Barr amendment strips this crime bill of necessary procedures to safeguard the lives of…

I stand in opposition to the Barr amendment. There are great sections of this terrorism bill, effective death penalty reform, victims restitution, criminal alien deportation, that are great. That is fighting crime. But what does it do…

the FDA defense is simple and it is fair. If the Food and Drug Administration approves a drug, then the pharmaceutical company which manufactures that drug should not be liable for punitive damages. Currently the fear of unnecessary…

I thank the gentleman, and let me at this point say this is a bipartisan effort, as I see it, and I thank my colleagues from law enforcement on both sides of the aisle for going to bat and swinging the bat at the ball to get him the help…

I have been in committee, the Committee on the Judiciary, with my colleagues here, and I have come to respect the gentlewoman from Texas [Ms. Jackson-Lee] and her positions on law enforcement. I think what we are talking about here is we…

Mr. Chairman, in deference to the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Mfume], let the record clearly indicate that in the committee--and the gentleman from Michigan can speak to that and others in the Committee on the Judiciary--this issue was…

I think what we are really talking about is what separates the philosophy on both sides of the aisle, on letting that be a grant whereby it is voluntary on the parts of those folks at the local level to use it as they see fit. And the…

I think we have reached an area where we are talking about micromanaging States as it relates to bail and other issues. This is an issue for the Congress to talk about, because it is a national issue; I think just as any other national…

let us enter into this debate with a little practicality and a little what really happens out there in the street. We will walk the walk a little bit. On December 3, 1980, Kermit Smith kidnaped Whellette Collins and two of her girlfriends…

Mr. Chairman, we hear the talk about the exclusionary rule, and I do not think we have had much dialog about the warrant search, the search under the authority of a warrant, other than having Leon explain to us on two occasions. What we…

My name is Fred Heineman, from the Fourth Congressional District in North Carolina. You will never detect a southern dialect in my speech because I was born and bred in the Bronx. The people of North Carolina did not concern themselves…