Political Quotes

“I wanted to at this point indicate that when talking about the COPS Program, if I might just put a plug in for our colleague from Connecticut, Jim Maloney, who has been working very hard to expand the COPS Program to include school resource officers, which is another part of our education program, working on safety in the schools, and I have been very pleased to work with Congressman Maloney, who has been successful in placing additional dollars into the budget to expand the wonderful COPS Program to allow those same officers that are trained in mediation, prevention, working with young people, being able to make those relationships between the neighborhood and the school to be able to bring that into the school. I know I have colleagues here that have been waiting here to speak this evening, but I did want to mention that it is I think noteworthy that our democratic colleague, Jim Maloney, has been working very, very hard on this issue.”