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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMs. CORTEZ MASTO. Mr. President, as we all know, this week is National Police Week. This is the time when we honor the brave men and women who put their lives on the line every single day to keep our families safe.
North Las Vegas police officer Jason Roscow, who died in the line of duty last year, and he will be memorialized on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial wall.
Vegas community safe for 17 years. He was described as a friend and a mentor to other members of the department. We will forever be grateful for his sacrifice, and he will be dearly missed.
to protect our communities, and while we recognize that service throughout the year, National Police Week is an opportunity to express our gratitude.
For me, supporting law enforcement is personal. My husband is a retired law enforcement officer, and I have seen firsthand the sacrifices that our officers and their families make so our families feel safe at home. That is why I have worked with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to champion legislation to support police officers across the country.
McConnell of Kentucky was signed into law. This legislation will ensure the families of retired law enforcement officers who were killed as a result of their service are not denied benefits. The law is called the Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act, named after a retired police officer in Kentucky who was tragically shot and killed by a man he had arrested a decade earlier. Chief Proffitt's family was denied the benefits they deserved because he had already retired. That is unacceptable, and that is why I am so proud that this bill to correct that mistake was signed into law.
this week. On Tuesday, my bipartisan bill to fight retail theft passed the House of Representatives. As of 2024, organized retail crime cost retailers $720,000 for every billion dollars in sales. That is up 50 percent since 2015. We are seeing criminals become more aggressive and violent while they are stealing from our stores. They are putting both customers and employees at risk as well. It is dangerous, it is damaging the trust between retailers and shoppers, and it has to stop.
Retail Crime Act, which I introduced with Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has been a great partner. This legislation would create an office within the Department of Homeland Security where Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies can coordinate with retail and supply chain industry representatives to curb this organized theft. It would also help create new tools to help investigators and prosecutors crack down on these criminals. This is a critical bill that will not only create a safer environment for shoppers but will actually help lower costs for consumers. Now that it has passed the House, I urge my colleagues in the Senate to take it up for a vote.
the Judiciary Committee this week. I have spent my career in the Senate working to end the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women and children. Tribal communities experience some of the highest rates of violence in the United States, especially against women and children, and yet Tribal law enforcement agencies just don't have access to the same resources other police departments have.
A glaring example of this is that the U.S. Marshals Service is not authorized to help Tribal police departments in locating dangerous criminals or finding missing children. It is a cruel and unnecessary injustice that both Democrats and Republicans agree needs to change. That is what the Tribal Warrant Fairness Act does. It grants the U.S. Marshals Service the same authority to assist Tribal law enforcement, when they request it, as it has to assist any other law enforcement agency.
it is one step closer to becoming law. I am going to keep pushing to get it to the President's desk for signature.
bill that Senator Lindsey Graham and I worked on and introduced, which is the Medal of Sacrifice Act. This bill creates a new Presidential award to posthumously honor law enforcement officers and other first responders who were killed in the line of duty.
to keep them safe, and their sacrifices deserve the highest possible recognition. The House has also passed this bill, and I look forward to the President signing it into law.
enforcement agencies and officers have the resources that they need, but during this National Police Week, we made a lot of important progress. The legislation we passed this week will make a difference not just to our police officers but to communities and families across the country. And let me just say, when we made progress, that was bipartisan progress in this body.