Political Quotes

“I would ask to speak on the point of order and ask that this very, very important program be allowed to proceed. I would ask the chairman to withdraw. I appreciate the comments that he has made, but he is speaking on a baseline that basically cut the program in half last year, so to say we are funding it at the same level does not give us what our communities need. In Michigan we have seen over 3,400 police officers added to our communities. It has dramatically reduced crime. It is critical for the communities and the families in Michigan that we fully fund community policing with all of the technology, all of the other efforts to make sure that this moves forward at its complete and fully funded level. I would ask the chairman to withdraw that in keeping with the strong support for fully funding of what is the most important crime-fighting effort we have seen in this country in many, many years, which is the community policing program.”