Excerpt from Reauthorization of the Hate Crimes Statistics Act: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1624, a Bill to Reauthorize the Hate Crime Statistics Act, and for Other Purposes; March 19, 1996 The chairman. I hope that wasn't as a result of a lack of push by the Senators there in Massachusetts. [laughter.] I just couldn't resist, that is all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.