Political Quotes

“I just have to say, as an aside, and as a supporter of the law that passed in the last Congress making it a Federal offense to commit violence, to prevent people from entering reproductive clinics, not simply for picketing them, as was referred to by a previous speaker, perhaps is a matter for another hearing. The prosecutions with which I am familiar that the Federal Justice Department has brought under that act appear to me to be duplications of prosecutions brought under State law. So the representations that the States are not enforcing the law, which is the representation I accepted when I supported that act, I would like examined perhaps at a hearing.”