I believe we should restore the COPS program and the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program to the levels that worked so effectively in the '90s.

an effective way to protect our citizens and create jobs, that begin rebuilding our economy and our communities, with confidence, would be to restore Federal support for State and local law enforcement.

the most severe--certainly the most severe--economic period of my lifetime.

we seem to be robbing that public--nothing against protecting this country from terrorism, but when you do so by robbing hometown security at the expense of homeland security

I'm happy to be an original co-sponsor of that Act.

We then had one very important thing happen: we had 9/11, which put huge additional burdens on State and local law enforcement.

The coordination. Commissioner, the need for better coordination.

But what we are now seeing are real declines in the size of police forces.

The former Chairman of this Committee, Joe Biden, who is soon to leave the Senate for another job, worked so hard on.

We have to act quickly and decisively to shore up State and local law enforcement or face reversal of the really great strides we made in the '90s at reducing crime.

So we have to act now. We have got to do something to reverse the nearly 50 percent reduction in overall funding for State and local law enforcement.

I think that I would like to see us worry more about law enforcement in America than law enforcement in Iraq.

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We are all in this together.

I want to make sure ours are well directed.

the COPS program is C-O-P-S, a program to bring additional law enforcement into local law enforcement.

the Vice President, Joe Biden, and we have watched his children grow up, and we all have these concerns.

This is the most frustrating thing. I can help get law enforcement money.

I strongly disagree. I do not want this to sound political, and I do not mean it that way--I have said this same thing to President Bush and others.

I cannot emphasize enough the small States--obviously, I care the most about my own State of Vermont.

I am very, very worried that we are being penny-wise, pound-foolish.

I know over the years in talking with the President-elect about his own children how much he feels about them.

there also has to be a Federal component.