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 p...
We did pass the Federal hate crime legislation in 1968 in the wake of the assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luth...
There are programs that provide and authorize grants to help State, local, and tribal law enforcement officials.
On June 24, 2009, Senator Leahy introduced the Crime Victims Fund Preservation Act of 2009, of which I am a cosponsor.
I believe in that debate, political rhetoric has drowned out reason and reality.
I do not want what appears to many people to be one rule for white America and a different rule for black America.
I hope you will look into it, and I would also hope you will redouble your efforts to work with me on a media shield bil...
I do not know how we reauthorize any of these things if they are going to be abused that way.
I had objected to it because I felt there was a lack of adequate protections in it.
I want to make sure we have accurate views of what is happening.