Laura Richardson: “We insist, however, that this committee not fail to recognize that radicalism is not limited to Islam and in no way are…”

As we consider our budget priorities for FY 2012, we must enact a budget that will reflect the need to create jobs and invest in our future prosperity.

I am here to speak for the people I represent, the hardworking and really hard-pressed men, women, and children and businesses of the 37th Congressional District.

It creates a narrative that this Government is against you and it creates a narrative that it is anti-Islam and anti-Muslim.

I proudly lend my voice as a dissenting view to the approach used at examining homegrown terrorism.