OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

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Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 23, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. LANDSMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman Himes for doing this Special Order and including us. I appreciate his leadership.

Mr. Speaker, I was legitimately shocked. I am certain that this is the first time ever the President of the United States, certainly in my lifetime, released hundreds of violent criminals from jails and sent them into our communities. These are people who have now said that they are determined to buy weapons to pursue more violence.

These are convicted criminals. They conspired to overthrow their own government. They stormed this Capitol. They destroyed property, sacred property. They attacked police officers.

On day one, a day that was supposed to be about fixing the economy, lowering prices, actual border security, and real immigration reform, the focus was on releasing these violent criminals.

Mr. Speaker, it is a betrayal to the American people, to law enforcement, and it has made us all less safe.

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