Adam Schiff: “Mr. Chairman, I rise for two reasons. First of all, I did not get a chance earlier and I wanted to say now that I…”

“Mr. Chairman, I rise for two reasons. First of all, I did not get a chance earlier and I wanted to say now that I express my commendation to the gentleman from Kentucky, Chairman Rogers, to the gentleman from West Virginia, Mr. Mollohan, to all the members of the appropriations subcommittee for the fine job they did with respect to this appropriations bill. Although I do not think it has been discussed at length, there is significant funding for agencies like the FBI, the DEA and for the U.S. attorneys who prosecute criminal offenses. As a former career prosecutor, I have to say I had an enduring frustration with legislative bodies that would pass new law after new law against crime and tougher penalties and all that but would not provide the resources to enforce those laws. So it would sound like great rhetoric and you could go back to your constituents and say: Look what I have done to fight crime. And it had little meaning if there was not enough money put behind the system to bring an effect to those few criminal statutes and higher penalties. The subcommittee of the gentleman from Kentucky, Chairman Rogers, I think, has very strenuously labored to recognize that problem to meet the goals of adequate funding for law enforcement. With that having been said generally, I want to say on the specifics, I think that we are now of one mind to try to direct $10 million toward specifically antiterrorism research.”