Hate Crime Law

I heard today about a wonderful addition to the legislation that will once again waste more money by taking up time to talk about adding pedophiles to the hate crime list. I think that this is a very large waste of time and money that could be better given out to do better things than what the Congress, who wants to help out problems, wants to do with this asset. All in all though I really don't care for a hate crimes list if you commit a crime against someone that is on the list than it should be just like if you committed it against someone not on the list, since we are trying to get some form of "equality" in the U.S.