Political Quotes

“before I do, I wanted to say just a word about Savanna's Act, which, I can tell you, Justice Ginsburg would probably be happy that the House has now passed and, previously, the Senate had passed Savanna's Act, legislation that would help protect the rights and help move forward on changes to law enforcement that would better protect missing and murdered indigenous women. This legislation--originally sponsored by my colleagues Heidi Heitkamp and Lisa Murkowski, and most recently cosponsored by Senator Murkowski, Senator Cortez Masto, and myself--I believe is on its way to the President's desk, and I am hoping that the President will sign this important legislation as soon as possible. Indigenous women deserve to have the same rights and same protections under the law, but they need to have people who are tracking these heinous crimes that are happening because they are the victims of these crimes at a much higher rate than the general population. You ask yourself: Well, how can that be? When you think about these women being abducted and murdered and missing, you have to have law enforcement who are going to follow these cases, track individuals, track the court process, and this is what better protocols, better statistics, and a better system is going to do with the passage of Savanna's Act. It will give us those tools that we need for indigenous women. So I thank all of my colleagues for helping with the passage of that important legislation.…”