Jon L. Christensen: “this week, Bill Clinton will be holding a forum on youth, crime, and drugs. My hometown of Omaha, NE, saw juvenile…”

“this week, Bill Clinton will be holding a forum on youth, crime, and drugs. My hometown of Omaha, NE, saw juvenile arrests for major crimes spike by 20 percent last year. In fact, by last year alone juveniles accounted for almost half of all the major crimes. In Omaha, there were 41 killings, 8 more than in 1994. We even lost one of our police officers to this tide of crime. Unfortunately, President Clinton is AWOL on the war on drugs. He passed a hug-a-thug crime bill with funding for dance lessons for criminals, and then he cut funding for his own drug czar by 84 percent. His top public health official once suggested that we should legalize illicit drugs. Instead the liberals are focused on another reform: uniforms for students. Mr. Speaker, I think that is a great idea, but I fully support it at the local level, not the Federal Department of Education level. But I support another uniform as well: orange prison jump suits for those drug dealers and violent felons terrorizing our communities; as my colleagues know, the drug dealers and violent felons that get off on technicalities because of slick criminal trial lawyers. Hopefully, we can come together with this Youth Crime Violence League and we can come up with a bipartisan answer to solve America's problems together.”