Political Quotes

“S. 1086, which we just passed, is the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. I do want to take a few moments to comment because this is an important piece of legislation. The House has passed companion legislation already in the past, but the fact that we have passed this bill tonight means we will dramatically impact the lives of hundreds, indeed thousands, of victims and potential victims of sexual predators. This has been remarkable to me. I followed a Dateline series, ``To Catch A Predator,'' over the last several weeks and months, but it was 2 nights ago that my legislative director and my counsel e-mailed me, or BlackBerried me, at 9 o'clock at night and said that in a few minutes another episode of ``To Catch A Predator'' is coming on and I turned it on. Once again I saw the devastation that occurs today, which cannot be totally prevented but we know can be prevented by arming the American people with the tools that can help catch these predators and, once they are caught, making sure they are kept away from children, that children are kept out of their reach. I think we have all been moved by this excellent investigative type of reporting that has demonstrated, in shocking terms, today how vulnerable our children are to sexual predators, much of that originating and facilitated by the use of the Internet, at times when our children simply do not have that supervision there, minute by minute.…”