Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a letter from Attorney General Holder. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, November 3, 2011. Hon. Jon Kyl, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. Dear Senator Kyl: This responds to your letters to Attorney General Holder dated June 6, 2011, and November 2, 2011, regarding the Department of Justice's implementation and enforcement of the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA), enacted as section 102 of the Justice for All Act of 2004. Pub. L. No. 108-405, 118 Stat. 2260, 2261-64 (codified at 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3771 (2006 & Supp. III 2009)). We apologize for our delay in responding to your June 6 letter. Your November 2 letter raises additional questions, to which we will reply as soon as possible. The Department appreciates your leadership in the area of protecting crime victims' rights, and we share your commitment to ensuring that crime victims receive the rights and services to which they are entitled under federal law. In the six years since passage of the CVRA, Department personnel have made their best efforts in thousands of federal and District of Columbia cases to assert, support, and defend crime victims' rights, often over the objections of defendants, and occasionally in the face of a skeptical judiciary.…”