Martin Hoke

And it got nearly 75 percent of the votes in this Congress. It had never previously been allowed to even come to the floor. Yet we got 301 votes.

What is it exactly we are talking about reforming here in this exclusionary rule?

I think that is important to emphasize, that defendants' rights are clearly being protected, but at the same time society's rights to have a timely resolution, a final resolution, an execution of its will, of society's will, the carrying…

My hat is absolutely off to every senior Republican Member in this Congress. I am amazed; I mean it, I know what it was like the last 2 years. Never having been in a legislative body before, I know what it is like just getting beat up…

You know, what I hear in everything that is being said tonight is that it sounds to me like we have got a pendulum that has been way out here, and it is moving back. It is moving back in a lot of different ways. It is moving back with…

The tax package. In August 1993, one vote here, one vote in the Senate. It took the Vice President of the United States to break that vote. That is because Democrats voted against it. The only reason they finally passed it was because they…

Could I ask the gentlewoman a question about the capital gains thing, because our friends from the other side of the aisle, as soon as they hear the words capital gains, the accusation is oh, that is for rich people, that is just something…

Who has asked that this rule, that this change that has been made by the Supreme Court, actually be codified into Federal law? Who has been supporting this?

Right, it is on a faster track, but just so we get a real idea, a faster track, for a U.S. attorney to say that, it may seem like a faster track to you, but I don't know if it seems like a very fast track to the public. If you are talking…

The gentlewoman is not exactly a newcomer to politics. But to jump into this with 9 weeks, I wish I had only 9 weeks. That is fantastic. What was it that motivated the gentlewoman to want to be a part of this, to get involved with the U.S…

when the Democrats passed their soft-on-crime bill last year, we were assured that it would be tough on criminals and attack crime's root causes. But once the American people learned what it was--dance classes and midnight basketball, what…

some Greek archaeologists recently announced that they may have discovered the tomb of Alexander the Great deep in the desert of Western Egypt. When they found the body, it had a laminated copy of the Contract With America in one hand and…

I would like to particularly point out that the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Parker] is a very conservative Democrat, and I would like to further point out that the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Parker] and many other Democrats have…

No accountability, no responsibility, no requirement that paternity be established. Are we changing that in the contract?

Let us review the bidding on what we have done and where we are at with this Contract. On the first day of Congress--I want to review the bidding with respect to the notion that somehow this is the Republican Contract With America, because…

And in Ohio where we passed a law that would limit Members of Congress to four 2-year terms that I supported and I campaigned for and I voted for, I will have the opportunity to vote on the amendment of the gentlewoman From Florida [Mrs…

We have limited the terms of committee chairs and of the speaker, and we did that because we could do that in our own rules package.

I think that what we will find out is there is a tremendous amount of creativity in the States. There will be States that will try all kinds of different solutions to the welfare problem, and they will come up with many, many different…

It also goes a step further with respect to legal aliens. That is people in this country legally, but who commit violent felonies, criminals, they get convicted and do time. That then becomes an issue upon which they can be deported upon…

That is exactly right. Well, we dealt with that today in the Committee on the Judiciary, as a matter of fact, specifically, and in fact there is an element of the bar that makes a full-time living in contacting prisoners and then using…

Actually, no. We are about 3 out of 10. We have congressional accountability, we have knocked down unfunded mandates, and we passed the balanced budget amendment.

Exactly right, the gentleman is absolutely right. Now, No. 2 is that with respect to conviction we have given the courts the ability to use evidence that may have previously been not allowed because of the exclusionary rule.

Well, it is catch, convict, and confine. Catch extra police. Convict habeas corpus, or exclusionary rule reform. Confine $10 billion in prisons. And with that, a requirement that a prisoner must do 85 percent of his sentence time.

That is exactly right. It is the good faith exclusion. What it says is that we are going to discipline the police officer, teach that person how to do it right. But if it was done in good faith and it did not impair the criminal's rights…

I think there is a lot of misunderstanding about this bill. I think people think and there is a general understanding in the public somehow we will no longer be able to legislate anything that would cost the States money. Is that what the…