Political Quotes

“I rise today to urge my fellow colleagues to adopt these two amendments as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. My first amendment would provide the Treasury Department with a $210 million annual authorization for the next 5 fiscal years from the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund. In addition, it would allow the Treasury Department law enforcement bureaus to expand many of their programs that are directed toward combating and preventing crime. These include programs such as Project Uptown, an ATF initiative which assists the New York City Police and Housing Authority deal with armed violent offenders and armed narcotics traffickers who operate in public housing projects. Other programs include Operation Ceasefire and Achilles Task Forces. Operation Ceasefire provides advanced computer technology to State and local police to identify weapons used in crimes in cities with large numbers of organized criminal gang and drug related shootings. The Achilles Task Forces which aims to make the unlawful possession and use of firearms the achilles heel of the small percentage of violent offenders that commit the majority of violent crimes.”