Speech #1040246041

First of all. he wants to take $12 million from our Federal courts even as we put more and more cases on our courts. and it is necessary for those court cases to be had to get violent criminals off the street. Mr. Chairman. $14 million would come from the State Departments consular services although we would slow down drastically visitation and legal immigration into this country. $45 million from the Federal prison system at a time when we need to increase prison system funding. here again to address the question of violent criminals. I remind the House that this program never has been authorized in its history. that for 20 years it did not keep time records. It did not allow auditing. and the agreement that was made last year to bring about those reforms also called for the reduction to go to $141 million which we should keep in this House.