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Attorney General Janet Reno wants states tomake sex offenders register their addresseswith police for at least a decade after they are released from prison. Reno today proposed minimum standards for state notification laws under a provision of the 1994 federal crime law that will cut off 10 percent of federal...
If you hunger to know what life would be like if the Republican revolution succeeds, here is a tangible example: small children would eat more Raisin Bran and less Cheerios, at least in Michigan. Of course, the libertarian Republicans would not insist. Their "Contract with America" would simply hand the...
Such scenes are fast becoming common: some 40 states have adopted what is commonly known as a "victims' bill of rights," which gives crime victims the right to speak in court during sentencing. As recently as 15 years ago, only three states had such laws. The federal crime bill passed...
As it happens, House Republicans will face a likely defeat this week when they take up term limits, a provision of the contract that seemed far more sensible to many last fall (when their party was out of power) than it does now. The most popular version, sponsored by Representative...
The House and Senate both gave overwhelming final approval to a bill that would require the Federal Government to pay the tab for many new rules and regulations it imposes upon state and local governments. The legislation will become the second provision of the G.O.P. "Contract with America" to become...