Date: August 25, 1994

Subject: Omnibus Crime Bill

Description: Mitchell (D-ME) motion to waive the budget act with respect to the Domenici (R-NM) point of order against the Crime Conference Report for violating Section 306 of the 1974 Congressional Budget Act and encroaching on the Budget Committee's jurisdiction by establishing a trust fund not considered by the committee. The conference report would authorize $30.2 billion over six years and require that all spending authorized by the bill come from a crime trust fund realized from eliminating 270,000 federal jobs. The bill would authorize $6.9 billion for crime prevention programs, $8.8 billion for community policing programs and the hiring of 100,000 new police officers, and a $7.9 billion grant program to build state and local prisons. The bill would also ban 19 specific "assault" weapons, expand the death penalty to dozens of new federal crimes, mandate life imprisonment without parole for three-time violent felons, provide for community notification of violent sex offenders, and allow prior sex offenses to be admitted in federal trials.

Result: Motion Agreed to, 61-39

Democrat: 55 Yeas, 1 Nays, 0 Not voting
Republican: 6 Yeas, 38 Nays, 0 Not voting

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