On the recordApril 1, 2022
It is incredulous when good ideas come to the floor that should draw bipartisan support--one cannot look, in the old country, they say, a gift horse in the mouth. I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for recognizing that what we do in Washington, what we do for the people of this Nation, is to make sure we give them good facts. It will be good facts if his amendment is assessing a very important place in our lives, the workplace, or another very important place in our lives, schools. This legislation, as I indicated, the underlying legislation just decriminalizes possession. It gives people another lifeline. It takes the criminalization away from this mounting incarceration of people of color. I support the gentleman's amendment and say it is reasonable and good law. Let us support that amendment and the underlying bill.
