Peter Deutsch: “earlier this evening this House adopted an amendment where I mentioned an incident that had occurred in Florida…”

“earlier this evening this House adopted an amendment where I mentioned an incident that had occurred in Florida unfortunately within the last 12 months and has occurred in Florida and everywhere unfortunately in this country on many occasions, and that is the exploitation of young children. Specifically I mention the name of Jimmy Rice, who was a young boy who was missing from his home for several weeks and actually several months in south Florida, which really became the focus of our entire community. He was missing and then subsequently found to have been sexually abused and murdered. It is a crime that occurs in America far too often, as I said, and it is a crime where I think as an individual, as a society, as a community, we can think of probably nothing worse that can happen to a young child and to their family. Mr. Chairman, we have had a discussion for several hours now about our role in sentencing and our role as a United States Congress in sentencing and setting up penalties for crimes.”