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Bob Wise: “Mr. Speaker, it was not that many years ago in West Virginia that I heard the story at Christmastime of a young wife who…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2000
Mr. Speaker, it was not that many years ago in West Virginia that I heard the story at Christmastime of a young wife who was using her Christmas savings to buy a bulletproof vest for her law enforcement husband. That just shocked me, to be honest, that when they got the badge and they got the gun and they got the uniform, they did not get the vest. So that began to open a lot of our eyes, I think. Then when I began looking around and I was watching families and churches and FOP lodges and others holding bake sales to buy bulletproof vests. No one should have to hold a bake sale to protect their life or protect the life of their loved one, and particularly when we ask that loved one to take extraordinary steps for society. This legislation took a much more important step to say that there would be a grant to assist local governments and municipalities in the cost of procuring that bulletproof vest.
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Bob Wise
West Virginia
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Discussing the need for funding bulletproof vests for law enforcement during a speech on the House floor.

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