[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26105]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



          THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge the Republican 
leadership to bring the bill of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. 
Conyers), H.R. 1343, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention 
Act, to the House floor before we leave next week.
  Communities across the Nation, including Marin and Sonoma Counties, 
where I work and that I am privileged to represent, are horrified by 
the brutal crimes committed against innocent Sikhs, Arabs, Indians, and 
people of Muslim faith. Our children are watching in horror as their 
moms, their dads, brothers, sisters and close friends are being 
harassed, spit on, beaten, and, even worse, killed.
  These hate crimes are happening in their neighborhoods, their 
schools, and their places of worship. Does this Congress want to stand 
by and let our children be subjected to this kind of hate, or will the 
107th Congress recognize the problem at hand and take the action 
necessary to reverse this trend by bringing H.R. 1343 forward?
  Mr. Speaker, we must past this bipartisan bill now.

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