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June 20, 1994
MEETING WITH HOUSE AND SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
DATE:
June 21, 1994
LOCATION: Cabinet Room
TIME:
5:30
FROM:
Pat Griffin, Rahm Emanuel, and Ron Klain
I.
PURPOSE
You are to meet with the House and Senate Democratic
leadership regarding the Crime Bill. The principal purpose of
the meeting is to determine a strategy for moving the Bill, in
light of the complications raised by the Racial Justice Act.
II. BACKGROUND
As we discussed, the Racial Justice Act has the potential to
imperil passage of the Crime Bill. Even a compromise text will
not avert overwhelming opposition by most prosecutors, and a
Republican filibuster in the Senate.
The House leadership wants racial justice included in the
Conference Report. Dropping it now, they say, will produce deep
conflict with the Congressional Black Caucus. They also fear
that dropping it will imperil the Crime Bill itself, by costing
us many CBC-liberal vote defections on the Rule.
The House leadership believes that, as with the Brady Bill,
a Senate filibuster can be overcome by accusing the Senate
Republicans of partisanship and gridlock. And they suggest that
if it cannot, they will be able to muster House support for a
second Conference on a second Crime Bill -- at which point, it
becomes easier to drop racial justice.
Senate leaders believe that a Senate filibuster over RJA
cannot be broken. They note that the Senate filibuster may not
be limited to Republicans: Senator Byrd, for example, is an
ardent RJA opponent. Given that the RJA lost in the Senate by a
41-59 margin, they note, we would need substantial numbers of RJA
supporters to join us to get the 60 votes needed for cloture.
III. PARTICIPANTS
The Vice President, Speaker Foley, Majority Leader Gephardt,
Chairman Brooks, Majority Leader Mitchell, Chairman Biden, the
Attorney General, Mack McLarty, Leon Panetta, George
Stephanopoulos, Pat Griffin, Rahm Emanuel, Ron Klain and Karen
Hancox.
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