Matt Salmon: “Mr. Speaker, you know something, I really do not care if we offend these bureaucrats. We saw the statistics, 14,000…”

“Mr. Speaker, you know something, I really do not care if we offend these bureaucrats. We saw the statistics, 14,000 rapes, murders, molestations every year and we saw the numbers. The small sentences that these people are being given. Of course, these bureaucrats who stand to possibly lose Federal funding because of their irresponsibility and their lack of care for keeping these criminals behind bars and protecting neighborhoods, they will be affected. They will be affected. The States that are doing a poor job keeping violent rapists, murderers and molesters off the streets, they will be affected. And, of course, their bureaucrats do not like that. They do not want to have any kind of comeuppance. They do not want to be responsible. At the end of the day, though, we have a responsibility to protect our neighborhoods. This will make a difference. I know that I have heard from the other side that they believe this is stupid, this is dumb. Frankly, I think that brings this debate into a new low level.”