"We passed the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act last Congress, a bill I worked on with Senators Grassley and Durbin and Leahy and Congresswoman Spartz here in the House, to make sure that we had a..."
"Mike, I would actually really like working with you on this. As you know, there's substantial overlap in our thinking and in our experience."
"more than that, they brought us here today to attack a district attorney who has actually seen a decrease in violent crime during his tenure."
"The problem is that you are using this as a political stunt unrelated to real concerns about public safety around this country."
"Our goal should be to prevent crime."
"My colleagues vote repeatedly against even the most commonsense gun violence prevention measures."
"One of the things I think that Congress has a responsibility to look at, although we don't have jurisdiction over State criminal prosecutions, obviously, or local prosecutions, what is the evidence wi..."
"the problem is that you are using this as a political stunt unrelated to real concerns about public safety around this country."
"Gun violence is now the leading cause of death of children in America and kills 40,000 Americans a year."
"I fear that you have been revictimized by this hearing because this hearing is not going to provide that change."
"They brought us here today to attack a district attorney who has actually seen a decrease in violent crime during his tenure."
"We stand ready to pass legislation to address the serious issues facing all Americans if our Republican colleagues will let us."
"Compare that to Mr. Jordan's Ohio, where the homicide rate is 73 percent higher than in Manhattan."
"If someone is a victim of a gun crime in New York City, dollars to doughnuts that gun was not originally purchased in New York State."
"There is massive gun trafficking that ferries guns from those five Southern States with weak gun laws up I-95 to States like New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts."
"We must pass universal background checks. We must implement red flag laws to keep guns away from those who are a danger to themselves and others, and we must reinstate the assault weapons ban."
"Here in New York, one of the largest and most complex cities in the world, local leaders have pursued violence intervention, diversion programs, targeted law enforcement and youth engagement programs ..."
"Unlike our Republican colleagues, Democrats have consistently advanced policies to make all our communities, including New York, safer places to live, to work, to worship, and to go to school."
