Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1469) to amend the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to establish a permanent background check system, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 1469 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Child Protection Improvements Act of 2010''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) In 2006, 61,200,000 adults (a total of 26.7 percent of the population) contributed a total of 8,100,000,000 hours of volunteer service. Of those who volunteer, 27 percent dedicate their service to education or youth programs, or a total of 16,500,000 adults. (2) Assuming recent incarceration rates remain unchanged, an estimated 6.6 percent of individuals in the United States will serve time in prison for a crime during their lifetime. The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System of the Federal Bureau of Investigation maintains fingerprints and criminal history records on more than 65,000,000 individuals, many of whom have been arrested or convicted multiple times. (3) A study released in 2002, found that, of individuals released from prison in 15 States in 1994, an estimated 67.5 percent were rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within 3 years. Three-quarters of those new arrests resulted in convictions or a new prison sentence.…”