Patrick Leahy actually said...

"Crime victims deserve better than they have been getting."

"It is this sort of gamesmanship with the VOCA funds that has let crime victims down."

"It would be a cruel irony if this were the week the Crime Victims Fund was gutted."

"I have always thought the irony is if we have a victim of a serious crime and we catch the person, we can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars--sometimes it is very necessary--to prosecute the perso..."