Political Quotes

“Reserving the right to object-- and I will not object--I would like to thank the gentleman from Texas and his colleague from Texas (Mr. Poe) and our colleague from New York (Mrs. Maloney) for their hard work on this bill, which would make funding for the testing of DNA rape kits and eliminating the rape kit background more possible. A lot of people will be made much safer because of this, and I thank the gentleman for his leadership. I withdraw my reservation. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Texas? There was no objection. The text of the bill is as follows: S. 3250 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 ``Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Reporting Act of 2012'' or the ``SAFER Act of 2012''. SEC. 2. DEBBIE SMITH GRANTS FOR AUDITING SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE BACKLOGS. Section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135) is amended-- (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ``(6) To conduct an audit consistent with subsection (n) of the samples of sexual assault evidence that are in the possession of the State or unit of local government and are awaiting testing.…”