Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, we have a situation right now in the home city of the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), Cincinnati, where the police department has refused to police in parts of the community. We cannot sit and ignore the fact that as a Congress we are saying, in these communities with a 99 percent of population of women and small children in which the Federal Government is the landlord, that we are not going to do anything to make sure that these communities are safe. And we are going to eliminate this program, and ignore the fact that, in our country, we have finally seen a major decrease in crime. Maybe the majority party is not happy with that. I do not know. Maybe it is not politically helpful that there is a reduction in crime. Maybe that is why we want to pull the rug out of the COPS program and the drug elimination program and the gun buy back program, but I think that is an unfortunate way to proceed. I would hope that people would support the Kaptur amendment.”