Political Quotes

“I would like to thank the gentleman from Texas for this time. I think it's important for us to understand the importance of this legislation and the opportunity that this literally presents for the protection of our wives and our daughters across this Nation. I visited with Jayann Sepich. Her daughter Katie literally had to fight for her life. And the only evidence after her body was discovered, raped and burned in a garbage dump, was the DNA collected under those fingernails. While we now have the empirical evidence, had Katie's law been in place at that time, we could have saved an additional 13 lives: 12 women who were raped and murdered and another who was pregnant with child. That is the importance, and the timeliness, as well, of moving forward with this legislation. In the State of Colorado, we've taken perpetrators off the streets. In fact, one of the challenges that we often don't discuss is not just future events that could potentially happen, but bringing resolution to families who have lost a loved one: solving cold cases. In the State of Colorado, we've now had 398 people identified for past crimes, those unsolved murders that haunt families.…”