Political Quotes

“I am not going to read the lengthy statement from the coalition of victims' rights advocates and law enforcement organizations opposing the Toomey amendment and the many organizations that have asked us to vote no on the amendment and yes on the Victims of Crime Act. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the entire statement There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: July 13, 2021. Hon. Member, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. Dear Senator: The organizations below, comprising the national VOCA stakeholder workgroup, are writing today to urge you to support a floor vote on the House-passed H.R. 1652, the VOCA Fix to Sustain the Crime Victims Fund Act of 2021 (``VOCA Fix Act'') by allowing a vote on the bill. We further urge you to vote in favor of the VOCA Fix Act and to oppose controversial amendments. The bipartisan and bicameral VOCA Fix Act, introduced in the Senate as S. 611 by Senators Durbin, Graham, Baldwin, Grassley, Feinstein, Cornyn, Klobuchar, and Murkowski, is a narrowly-focused, carefully negotiated technical fix to address an immediate crises--massive cuts to Victim of Crime Act (``VOCA'') victim service grants and insufficient funding for victim compensation. VOCA grants are funded by monetary penalties associated with Federal criminal convictions--they are not funded with taxpayer money.…”