Jane Harman: “I applaud what he said and point out to my colleagues that we have established over the past few years law technology…”

“I applaud what he said and point out to my colleagues that we have established over the past few years law technology centers around the country. There are five of them. One of them is in New York. Another of them is in southern California located in El Segundo, CA, in my district. What these centers do is to canvas what defense technologies are available and then figure out whether there are law enforcement applications that would be useful and help generate a market for the development of those technologies for law enforcement. I have been calling this a win-win-win. It is a win for the defense sector, which has new markets to sell into. It is a win for law enforcement, which has much better tools. And it is a win for the public, which is much safer. So I think this compromise, bipartisan amendment puts us $10 million closer to better solutions. Maybe it is also a small gesture to the families of those who tragically lost their lives on the TWA plane to Paris, those lives may not have been lost in vain. This Congress appreciates the magnitude of the loss, and we are working as hard as we can to prevent another one.”