Charles Norwood: “in conclusion, I will simply say to my friend, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott) that this is not an amendment…”

First and foremost, I would ask my colleagues in the nicest possible way, we really should reject this amendment, and we should do so, frankly, in a bipartisan way. There are a number of things that are going on here, but primarily over…

If I had lost a son or a father in one of those mines, I would be just like they are. I would be hammering the tables, saying why aren't you doing something in Washington? But the truth is, when we do do something, it needs to be the right…

In the gentleman's experience in the justice system, would you conclude that people who are in law enforcement do it for the love of it? They want to enforce the law. And those that are not today are being held back by politicians in some…

I actually did not know who to come to talk to because we did not know who would be leading against this amendment. If I may, it is a very, very simple drafting error in the bill on line 7 where we are saying that law enforcement personnel…