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Collection/Record Group:
Clinton Presidential Records
Subgroup/Office of Origin:
Communications
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Don Baer
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Minneapolis Police, 8/12/94
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·on anpt'other day, I'd be thrilled to be here.
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here today, with my friends the Democratic Mayor of Philadelphia
. d the Republican Mayor of New Y'lrk because, yesterday in:
. rashinqton, the House of Represent~tives tried to take the easy
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·congress likes to talk a. good game on crime -- but it just
dOesn't seem to know how to ~ct. Well~ we cannot talk away the
crtae that is overwhelminq our neighborhoods and overpowering our
police officers. We c~ot talk away the viol'ence that keeps
Children up·at ~ight afraid for their.liv~. We've had enough ·
talk --.congress has been talking about- a Crime Bill ·for six .
years. I •m· tired o.f talk and the American p'eople are tired of ·
· talk._, Now it is time to ,act and do what the American people want .
-- pass the toughest crime bill in the history· of this·. country. .
Every day, you· put on your unifo·rms and you put on your
badges -- and you qo out on the st~eets, risking your lives to
serve the. peopl~ you were sworn to protect. ·
You don:•t run f~om yo~r-~espo~sibility,.' and you don't hide
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x' cannot say.the same.for 225 Mem):)ers :oi tlie.-United-States
· congress. They have ·a· responsibility to all of .you, to every
man, woman~ and child in this .country. A responsibili~y to-·
provide for the safety of every. American.
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· Yesterday,· they let you down~ They tried to bide froa their
responsibility and they didn't even ·have the courage to do it in .·
the daylight. 225 M•ers of Congress . participated i~ a·. . · .
procedural trick orch~stratecl by the -·National- Rifle Association
and promoted by ·the Republican leadershipl a trick-designed with
·only one thing in mi~d, to put the protection of special ·
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interests over the-protection of ordinary Americans and the
safety- of police officers.
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·. They. ,~nk that the speci•l in~erests· can keep 'thea in·
Congress .,rever -- but before this figl\t is over, they're going
'to learn t)iat the·only way to.keep their seat safe is to keep
Amer-ica's neighborhoods safe.
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·Back in Washington, all they care· $bo~t is ·what· yester~y's
.vote means for me;· they want tQ know, will the polls go up, will ·
the polls go down? Look-- this bill isn't for me1 ·tf·every
·American had the security_ that I have, we wouldn'~ need a criile
bill.
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But. Americans don't-have the security I have ---and America
needs ac:tioli aqa.inst crime and violence this year. Congress·
cannot ~;.from this ·responsi~ility any lonqer •.
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America wants a Crime Bill that will put .100, 000 n·ew police
officers on the s.treets. For. too many years, this co.untry has
left you out there -- outnumbered and outgunned.
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America wants a Crime Bill that will put violent criminals
away for good, and make three st.rikes and yo~' re out the ·law of
the land.· .
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· America wants a Crime Bill that'will ban the deadly assault
weapons that ganqs and druq dealers·use to gun down police
officers anq innocent children.
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America wants· a Crime Bill that will both build ·more. prisons
to lock up violent criminals.and do· more to keep younq people
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And America wants a-Crime.Bill that will impose tougher
penalties for violent crimes •. If·someone· kills a police officer ·
in the. lin~ of duty, I think the penalty for that ought to be · ·
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That's- the .Crime Bi't.l America wants .-- ·and ..that •·s the: criae
Bill 225 ·Memoez:·s of c_onqress ·vote·d aqainst ye-sterday·.. · ·. ·.•:
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There's so~ethi~g:· ·wrong in this country when it takescongress six ·years to pass a crime bill· and the a:verage violent
· criminal. walks in four. Let's ~ill two birds: with one stone -pass a crime bill and ·shut down· the revolvtnq door to our prisons
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Let me tell .you where we Ought to start. · ':l'his crille bill
has been a bipartisan deal every step of the way. Sixty-five
Republican Conqressmen voted ·for this bill in April •. 'l'hirty·eight· Republican Conqressmen voted to ban assault weapons ~ May.
Eleven couraqeous Republican Congressmen stoad up to witherinq
, p·ressure from ·'the· Republican leadership yesterday and voted to .
qive you, a crime bill. But some of -their coll•agues, wbo voted
for eve~Ytllinq in this bill, turned their backs on 'their -votes, · ..
tu~ed tfieir backs on you, and turned thelr backs. on the American ·
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.They sold out to the special interests ancl caved·in to-the
Republican leadership. They ought to go dO'!Jl ~o the police ...
station in every town in their district;.· And they ought· to have.
to explain to you and your colleagues how they thi~k they_can get
.away with their Washington D.C. political qames.
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I'm not ·qoing to· let you be outqunned. I.· aa not going· to
· let you be· outmanned.. ·And I'm, riot. CJC?.ing to l't Washington hang
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We. dictn' t get you a crime b~ll yesterday. But we are going ·
to get wu·a crime bill. You're out there·for us every day-and we a~~ qolnq to be out therf! for fOU.
This issue is not going to go· away. We are going to carry .
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Donald Baer was Assistant to the President and Director of Communications in the White House Communications Office. The records in this collection contain copies of speeches, speech drafts, talking points, letters, notes, memoranda, background material, correspondence, reports, excerpts from manuscripts and books, news articles, presidential schedules, telephone message forms, and telephone call lists.
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2006-0458-F
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