This bill is critically important for jobs in our community.

I do believe the Water Resources Development Act is one of the most important bills that we can get done.

I rise today to introduce the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky Act of 2010. As Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, I first learned about Sergei Magnitsky at a hearing I held on Russia in June 2009. Sergei…

The problem is it is not divided as to the homeless today.

Well, your brother had a right, though, to expect that the country that he lived in, which is the envy of the world for promoting liberty and justice and opportunity for all of its citizens, a model democracy, that that country would do…

I would hope that we were beyond this, but until we get the information as to whether ads like this are having impact, it is difficult, I think, for us to develop a strategy to deal with it.

They are being targeted because they are perceived by the attacker as a worthy victim because they are homeless.

Well, thank you, Professor. I appreciate that.

It seems like we need to have good information to make decisions.

I just interpret from your comments that you want to be opposed to this bill, which is your right to do it, but I do not see any rational distinction if you support collecting information on crimes.

I found the hearing very helpful, and we will decide next how to proceed, and we thank you for your testimony.

But they also understand that this Nation needs--its first priority is to protect its citizens and that when someone is brutally attacked or put in harm's way solely because they have no roof over their heads at night, that is not America.

I believe that you would find the statistical information on most of the status crimes that I have talked about.

Now, I also applaud your efforts with the Hate Crimes/Anti-Bias Task Force.

So I wholeheartedly support this legislation.

I can tell you that they want us at the national level to do everything we can to reduce the number of homeless, particularly those who are homeless because of a circumstance such as domestic violence or the fact that they have come back…

Hunt the homeless. Kill one for fun. We are 87 percent sure it is legal.

the homeless, just because they are homeless, are being victimized, and that needs to stop in America.

When I heard about John McGraham being doused with gasoline and set ablaze, I was shocked and horrified that this could happen to a fellow human being and just wondered where we are heading.

Well, Congresswoman Johnson, thank you for your testimony, but more importantly, thank you for your leadership on this issue in the Congress.

When I hear the horrific stories about murders, assaults, and rapes committed against our Nation's homeless, I ask myself: Is this really America?

Last fall, I introduced the Hate Crimes Against the Homeless Statistics Act with Senator Collins in an effort to get uniform data collection on this type of violence.

The purpose of this bill, as I pointed out, is to get uniform information.

Is it useful to have that information? Or do you oppose knowing the amount of violent acts against individuals based upon race, based upon religion, based upon gender or gender identification?

We do not disagree with that, but it reminds me of people who complain that we should not try to stop wars because we cannot stop all wars or we should not fight for human rights because we cannot end all human rights abuses.