I thank the gentlewoman from Florida and the gentleman from Illinois, and I join Mr. Horsford in expressing my appreciation to them both for their continuing leadership. Mr. Speaker, this is a particularly important Special Order, honoring…

I thank the ranking member for being so eloquent on where we are today. Let me read the headline of this legislation, H. Con. Res. 40, expressing support for local law enforcement officers. Broadly supported all across America. Every day…

I stand here today to say, yes, I support local law enforcement. Never have my lips ever said the words that would take dollars away from those personnel, their salaries, and all that they need to do. I don't know why in a resolution that…

I support Federal, State and local law enforcement. I support those that are in my district right now. I would offer to say, aren't we examples for young people? Don't we want our children to raise up and support law enforcement and see…

We are now at a time when we are talking about H.R. 2494. I would say that when interacting with law enforcement officers, I have never heard one person raise this. I don't think we can condemn prosecutors across America that they are not…

This bill has been ill-drafted in harmful measure and does not seek to address a need that people are crying for. The bill insults prosecutors across America. You can't label them all. In essence, it insults law enforcement officers, who…

I thank the distinguished ranking member, and I thank the manager on the other side for their work. This is National Police Week. I started my week in joining a family from Houston whose husband and father had fallen as a police officer in…

I am prepared to close, and I yield myself the balance of my time. We will see many of our local police officials and officers this week. I acknowledge that the week of May 1 through May 5, the city of Houston and the Houston Police…

Let me thank the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Jackson) for gathering us this evening. As I have often said, this is National Police Week. Today, we honor those who have fallen in…

I acknowledge the words of our chief, Chief Troy Finner: ``We honor the heroes and heal their families' heart.'' Chief Troy Finner said that HPD commanders and officers joined thousands tonight with a candlelight vigil in Washington, D.C…

Today I managed on the floor of the House a legislation that would honor the fallen of our many, many police officers, some 800,000 across America. I had the privilege of joining many, many families and police officers in the National…

It is important that we take a look at what we are doing here today. It is very obvious that we are addressing this question from the perspective of punishing families and punishing our children--yes, the children. The children are of all…