Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I rise to urge support for an amendment I am offering in conjunction with Mr. Meehan to increase funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative by $1 million. This successful program has proven to be an effective blueprint for local law enforcement in shutting the doors of the black market of illegal guns that supplies juvenile criminals. Crimes committed with increasingly accessible available guns account almost entirely for the terrible surge of violent crime by youths that the Nation has experienced over the past decade.”