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Floor Speech

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Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, today, we are approaching the end of this year's National Police Week, so I come to the floor to talk about what Congress can do to support the brave men and women who protect us.

In a few moments, I will go to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where I am chair, to take up eight bills that I have worked out with Ranking Member Durbin and members of the committee--in other words, bipartisan bills.

Each of these bills support law enforcement and gives law enforcement critical tools to protect us Americans. For example, one of these bills protects first responders from accidental exposure to fentanyl. Another bill reauthorizes the task force and helps keep our children safe online. A third bill bolsters the PSOB Program to protect first responders' loved ones, should they bravely sacrifice themselves in the line of duty. That is just a sampling of the list of bipartisan bills that we will be considering today.

I take this opportunity to thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for taking this National Police Week seriously, very seriously. I have always backed the blue, and that is why I have set these eight bills on the committee's agenda.

Once these bills are reported out of committee, I am committed to moving them through the Senate expeditiously, and I assume, through their bipartisan sponsorship, that we will have bipartisan support on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

I call on my colleagues, then, to join me in supporting our law enforcement community by passing my Police Week bills as quickly as possible.

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