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Kassebaum sides with Democrats The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sen. Nancy Kassebaum broke ranks yesterday with Republican Leader Bob Dole and most of her GOP colleagues by siding with Democrats on a key crime bill vote.
Kassebaum said she was disappointed that Senate Republicans rejected a Democratic offer to vote at a later date on cutting $5 billion in prevention programs from the $30.2 billion measure.
"Ibelieve a vote on social spending in the crime bill would have clearly delineated the differences in the two parties," Kassebaum said. "I think it is unfortunate that my Republican colleagues chose not to accept this offer."
Kassebaum was joined by five other Republicans in voting against a procedural rule GOP leaders wanted to use to change the measure.
A crime bill unchanged from the House version appeared all but certain to pass, but it was unclear when a final vote would occur.
Dole conceded defeat before the first vote.
Senate hands crime bill to Clinton
"I regret that I failed as the leader to keep our people together on this side of the aisle," he said. "We tried. We made every effort." It was a difficult balancing act this week for Kassebaum, who initially said she supported most of the crime bill passed by the House and had expressed unhappiness with Republican-led delays in the Senate.
WASHINGTON — Capping a ferocious six-year debate, Congress handed President Clinton a critical victory last night with Senate passage of a $30 billion, more cops-for-America crime bill.
The Associated Press
The vote was 61-38. Hours earlier, a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in narrowly blocking a GOP effort that would have derailed the bill.
The legislation authorizes thousands of prison cells, establishes new crime-prevention programs, bans assault-style weapons and creates more than 50 new death penalties.
It also will help state and local governments pay for 100,000 new police officers, fulfilling one of Clinton's campaign pledges two years ago. The House passed the measure last Sunday, and it now goes to the White House for the president's signature.
"The long, hard wait is finally over." Clinton said after the vote. "The American people are going to get the action against crime they have been demanding for over six years."
Clinton praised what he called a bipartisan spirit among both Democrats and Republicans that "overcame the ... divisions and false choices" that have blocked final action on major crime bills in the past.
"And because they did," he said, "children will be safer and parents will breath a little easier. Police officers will no longer be threatened by gangs and thugs with easy access to deadly assault weapons designed only for war."
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Biden, D-Del., called the package "a tough bill, a straightforward bill that the cops want, the prosecutors want and the people need."
But Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole countered that the measure was unduly expensive and loaded with "ork."
"When the people wake up tomorrow morning, it's going to be sticker shock," Dole said.
The bill was passed with the votes of 54 Democrats and seven Republicans. Voting against it were 36 Republicans and two Democrats. Only Sen. Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., did not vote.
Earlier yesterday, six Republicans joined 55 Democrats to block a last-ditch GOP effort that would have undone the painstakingly crafted bill negotiated last week by Democrats and moderate Republicans in the House.
In that earlier vote, supporters of the crime bill won with only a single vote to spare, 61-39. Republicans could have sidetracked the bill by garnering just 41 votes.
Most of the Senate's 44 Republicans wanted to block the bill, calling it too costly and complaining that minimum sentences should have been toughened. They said there were too many dollars for prevention and not enough money for enforcement.
Shortly before the final vote on the crime bill itself, supporters once again mustered the 60 votes necessary to choke off speeches demanded by senators such as Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and Larry Craig, R-Idaho — both board members of the National Rifle Association. That vote also was 61-38.
Just prior to the vote on the GOP procedural move, a grim-faced Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell
said that Congress had been gridlocked long enough on crime legislation.
"Finally there comes a time to act," he said, waving his arm for emphasis. "Finally, there comes a time when delay is no longer an option ... when we must stand up and answer the roll. Are we or are we not willing to put our votes where our speeches are and do something about the tide of crime and violence and fear that engulfs our nation?"
But Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the Judiciary Committee's senior Republican, slammed the Clinton administration and the bill's supporters saying, "This bill is not tough on crime. Most of the money will be used to help re-elect the people they want to re-elect."
Democrats needed Republican help because opponents of the bill needed only 41 votes on a procedural challenge to prevail. There are 56 Democrats and 44 Republicans in the Senate, and one Democrat, Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, voted with the Republicans.
Republican senators voting to keep the crime bill on track were: John Chafee of Rhode Island, John Danforth of Missouri, James Jeffords of Vermont, Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, William Roth of Delaware and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. All but Specter were among the 10 Republicans who voted last November to add the assault-style firearms ban to the Senate's crime bill.
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas said the Republicans "had the votes for about 24 hours" to win the procedural motion but then lost three critical votes to Mitchell.
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