While he was in the Senate, as you, co-sponsored similar legislation was to know President Obama, supports the legislation. On 28 April 2009, the President "Urg [Ed] by the law of this important civil rights issue for the two sides of the aisle of the members of the violent acts of intolerance for the protection of its citizens." The President and I rapidly adopting these rules, am responsible for, because hate crime victims are not only individuals but the entire community. Criminals, regardless of our skin, the God whom we pray, or to select the color of love of humanity we all share, refuse to hate crime.
The Museum of the recent flood disaster in the form of violence in people suffering from terrible to show our nation with the consumption of intolerance and prejudice. Today, as if he is in danger of threatening our citizens and our communities, our collective spirit of the 1998 loss, bias-motivated violence in the first time announced. In fact, the number of incidents of hate crimes per year, almost as when I first testified before this committee is. The FBI, the 77,000 hate crime incidents in 1998 were more than 7,755 hate crime incidents in 7624 2007 and for which the FBI hate crimes legislation on the Senate Judiciary Committee before the first witness testimony data.1 has been the latest FBI hate crimes report of the year for the years 2008 and 2009 in the number of crimes not reported. It is about a hate crime than a decade, more than every hour of every day.
It is time for this important bill and I support the President and the law in this division, with up to a decade to create more than urge all Americans.
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Department in a letter dated look about the status of the legislation before the hearing. My testimony today, but nothing in this letter that all the issues.
State and local law enforcement agencies through that there is a significant problem from the FBI crime statistics show hate crimes in this country hate. In the last ten years, about half of the cases on the basis of race in the U.S. hate crime. But many other types of victims of hate crimes are targeted to. For example, in the last decade, the common religion in the incidence of hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation bias after the events of the second largest number of cases. The latest national statistics that the people of Spanish origin against a federal government row.2 a violent crime motivated by prejudice and bigotry to save people is a strong interest in the four years are showing hate crimes.