House Proceeding 04-29-09 on Apr 29th, 2009 :: 0:31:00 to 0:33:05
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Lois Capps: hate crimes become hate speech become thought crimes too easily. i urge a no vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from florida mr. hastings: i'm pleased at this time to yield t minutes to my good friend, the distinguished gentlewoman fr california, mrs. capps. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recogniz for two minutes.

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Speech By: Lois Capps

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Lois Capps: mrs. capps: i thank my colleague for yielding. i'm proud to support the local unlaw enforcement and hate crimes prevention act. this is a commnts bill with broad support. our law enforcement agencies, the vast majority of whom support this legislation, deserve the tools to prosecute

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Lois Capps: crimes. hate crimes have more than tripled since we began collecting statistics on it 20 years ago, yet our police forces still have no authority to deal with crimes against

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Lois Capps: gay, lesbian and bisexual neighbors and friends. this is a common sense step to fix this injustice. it allows the justice department to aid state and local jurisdictions by either lending assistance or taking the lead in investigations and prosecutions of 1r50eu7b89 crimes motivated by bias. mr. speaker, let us be clear. nothing in h.r. 13 could or

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Lois Capps: would change first amendment protections, but violence is not free speech. like many of my colleagues, i live in a community that was tragically altered by a senseless hate crime. early last year, laurence king, an eighth grader in district in a junior high school, was shot and killed by another student in his computer class,

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Lois Capps: again, at a m laurence was a young man who identified hielf as a gay person and this was the cause of the violence that took his life. the police c the murder and classified it as a hate crime. mr. speaker, i'm very honored to stand here today and support h.r. 1913 in memory of laurence

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Lois Capps: king and so many others who