[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14768]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             MILITARIZATION

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge this House 
to stop the free flow of excess Defense Department military weapons and 
equipment to local law enforcement.
  Our neighborhoods need to be protected, but Americans oppose blurring 
the line between the police and military. When law enforcement uses 
military MRAPs on Main Street, that changes the relationship with the 
public.
  Our country is not a war zone, and it should not feel like one. That 
is why Representative Raul Labrador and myself are introducing the Stop 
Militarizing Law Enforcement Act. This is a commonsense and bipartisan 
bill to reform the Department of Defense 1033 program to stop the free 
flow of this equipment from foreign battlefields directly to the 
streets of America.
  I urge all of my colleagues to support this bill.

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