Kendrick Meek: “First of all, the chairman has conducted the meetings with a professional acumen that is rarely seen in a body such as…”

“First of all, the chairman has conducted the meetings with a professional acumen that is rarely seen in a body such as this. The ranking member has supported him and has helped us. We have worked as a group. It is not a partisan committee, it is a bipartisan committee where we work together on issues and we work toward the resolution of those issues. This is a very good bill. I support it. I would like my colleagues to support it. It is extremely important that attention be paid to the reduction of violent crime, and this subcommittee has seen to that, not only in its proceedings, but in all of its action in that committee. What effort is any better in a Congress than the reduction of crime and the saving of lives, and this committee has seen to that and has funded it. I am particularly interested in the gang resistance reduction program in that gangs are on the rise in our country, and we need more and more attention paid to them, and this subcommittee has done that. We have given the kind of support to investigations so that when something is discovered, that there is support for the findings. Most importantly, attention is being given to missing and exploited children.”