Fact checks: President Trump, Joe Biden, the Democrats and the 1994 crime bill. - jonallendc
backed the legislation, according to reports at the time.
When the Senate passed its version of the bill in November 1993, on a 95-4 roll call, former Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, boasted about it. was a"simplistic approach to the crime problem." Conyers offered up a bill that focused on job opportunities, drug treatment and additional crime prevention programs.
Sanders also has defended his vote in favor of the bill in a similar fashion, telling CNN that if he hadn't, he would be getting asked today about why he"did not vote for a ban on assault weapons."During that same New Hampshire event, Biden claimed that the 1994 bill did not lead to mass incarceration.
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