If someone in good faith, if someone brings a good-faith lawsuit, they ought not be threatened in the way this loser pays threatens them if it is a close call, and you lost a close case, you not only lose your case, lose all you are…

Mr. Chairman, our goal is to reduce crime. Studies show the effective way to do this is through crime prevention programs, education, recreation, job training programs, all of which have been studied, have been shown to reduce crime 10…

Mr. Chairman, the series of crime bills we have now effectively block-grant the prevention and police money from the 1994 bill and then cut that block of money by $2.5 billion and increase the prison construction money by $2.5 billion…

this is a minuscule amount of money, but it is money that will actually work. Gang reduction programs work. A program was studied in a Spokane, WA, school. They used a school to offer at-risk youth a variety of recreational and educational…

there are several problems that I have with the bill. I just want to point out a couple of them. The first, Mr. Chairman, is the fact that we are taking $2.5 billion out of the 1994 crime bill from the programs that actually work. That…

the proposed Conyers amendment seeks to codify the 1984 Supreme Court decision in United States versus Leon, where the Court held that the exclusionary rule should not be used to bar evidence gathered by officers acting in a reasonable…

this bill will streamline the procedure by which victims can get restitution. Victims already have the right to sue and could go into civil court, but since everybody is right here in court to begin with, they can get the restitution that…

I rise today to state my opposition to the Barton amendment. Mr. Chairman, if you actually read the bill rather than read the title, you will find that the amendment does not require a balanced budget. It only requires a three-fifths vote…