Patrick Leahy actually said...

Thank you. I am thinking we have three former prosecutors sitting here at the dais now, and that is one of the things that has kept us here.

Acknowledging the presence of former prosecutors at the hearing.

07/12/2011

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We need this protection, we deserve this justice.

I commend Senator Kennedy for his leadership in this effort over the years.

I would just say, therefore, that when we now carve out a different class of people that may also deserve that kind of protection, we need, ...

We did pass the Federal hate crime legislation in 1968 in the wake of the assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luther King.