Melvin Watt: “I would simply assure the gentleman this type of data is something the chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime wants…”

“I would simply assure the gentleman this type of data is something the chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime wants, would like to have. If we do not have it, I believe we do have it, based on representations made to me in limited resources we have this morning, I would be happy to work with him to make sure we do get it in some other form, but not as a restriction or a caveat as a condition precedent to allowing these grants to flow. If the gentleman would accept that, I would urge him to withdraw this amendment and let us proceed with the rest of them and we will go forward in the committee and make sure we get this data, but not through the use of this bill or through the restraints he is trying to impose today.”