03/10/2009
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"This is a choice that we are making, to allow all the children of America to go into school worried that they're going to be the victim of a mass shooting. It's a scandal that we have done nothing abo..."
"As a Democrat, I will not sit here, as my predecessor said, Barbara Jordan, and see the diminution of the Constitution, the destruction of what we believe in and our values."
"We need to begin this hearing today by remembering that the victims of these soft-on-crime policies, the victims of these reckless bail reform policies, aren't just numbers; they are people and lives ..."
"When crimes aren't prosecuted and when judges are prevented from setting appropriate bail or when violent criminals are released out on the street and allowed to re-offend because of reckless bail pol..."