noigs crime scene evidence and rape kits, the debbie smith funds also are utilized to process offender d.n.a. samples to ensure evidence from unsolved crimes can be matched against our database. the funds provided by the act are incredibly critical since they will help solve crimes and get criminals off the streets. i know friends across the aisle and in our hearing that was just going on that i just left in judiciary, there's an effort as one democratic witness said, gee, we just, we're here to ask you to do something. well, rather than taking guns from law-abiding citizens as is being proposed, i would submit that better answer is, let's get the criminals off the street. i know there's a big effort to get criminals out of prison but how about if we get criminals back in prison for crimes they committed that have not been adjudicated. this needs to be addressed. it shouldn't be a political issue. let's just, if we would just vote no, we could get a majority to vote no on the previous question, then we'll get this in as part of the rule, this amendment, and then we can -- it probably -