Ed Royce: “I also agree that on the issue on this omnibus spending spree that we're calling a stimulus bill, that where we increase…”

“I also agree that on the issue on this omnibus spending spree that we're calling a stimulus bill, that where we increase from $1 trillion, add another trillion and push up the deficit to 10 percent of the GDP, this is not the answer. But let me talk for a minute about the stalker bill because I'm the author of the first stalker act, both here in the Federal Government and at the State level in California. In Orange County, California, we had four young women who were killed in the span of 6 weeks, and law enforcement had told me at the time that if they had been able to intervene they could have protected them. One law enforcement officer said the hardest thing he ever had to do in his life, he was waiting to try to apprehend the man who was going to kill his girlfriend. The man succeeded and then killed himself. It was 30 seconds too late for the officer to prevent that, or a minute too late. So the Federal law and the State law, the California law has now, frankly, been copied by all 50 States. But I wanted to share with my colleagues here that our Federal anti-stalker law has now been passed in Japan. It's been passed in countries in Europe and elsewhere around the world.”