It's very sad when people are afraid to come out of their house at night in Upper Manhattan or Lower Manhattan.

According to the NYPD data, New York City saw a 23-percent surge in major crimes in one year since Alvin Bragg took over.

These are the completely foreseeable and obvious effects of the soft-on-crime policies that are advanced by Soros-funded DAs.

I must say, please, let's turn our attention to the good things we can do in Congress.

When Democrats took over the House and Senate and the Governor's Mansion between 2019-2021, they reversed policies that were put in place in 1995 that abolished parole, instituted mandatory minimum sentences and presumptions against bail.

Mr. Bragg, I hope you're watching. I hope you're watching today, sir. You're a disgrace. You're a danger to this country.

You want to defund NYPD a billion dollars in 2020, and you wonder why we are in the State of Emergency we are in.

Our government was stood up to protect people's rights to life, liberty, and property, and it's not doing it.

I actually on the Criminal Justice Subcommittee tried to pass some laws on a bipartisan basis.

If you want to see what happens when you don't prosecute people for throwing bricks through windows, starting fires in downtown, running everybody else out, come to Portland.

My constituents are scared because they're watching what's happening in New York City, and they know that the Shenandoah Valley, if they adopt the wrong policies, if they elect the wrong prosecutors, their lives could turn for the worse…

Decreasing felonies to misdemeanors is dangerous and places the victim last.

In short, according to this memo, if you hold a gun to a clerk's face and ask, 'Empty the cash register, sir,' we are going to take that and that's going to be a misdemeanor, no big deal.

I apologize on behalf of the Congress.

I actually care what is happening in this country.

We have a spike in crime here in New York City: 1,500 rapes, up seven percent, robberies up 26 percent, felony assaults up 13 percent, burglaries up 23 percent, grand larcenies up 26 percent, auto thefts up 32 percent, all accounting for a…

When you get rid of the policies like a presumption against bail that we got rid of in Virginia, like the bail policies that you have here, the ending of cash bail here in New York City, it's like termites eating away at that stool.

I hope we will have more discussion about jurisdiction, because we're overreaching significantly on the States' rights.