I think your unemployment rate is 10 percent.
I believe it would be important to bring more work into the prisons.
I think faith makes a big difference. John Newton wrote Amazing Grace. The faith issue was the issue that changed him.
And actually, you know, for three old guys, you were fairly exciting insofar as laying out what the opportunities are in...
How well do we honestly do?
I think we are building more prisons, putting more people away when we ought to be putting more money into training and ...
People in prisons are people. They have moms and dads and husbands and wives and kids. And they are not statistics.
I think there is a unique opportunity. I think we are coming to a storm economically.
I think a job is the most important, centering thing, for all of us, an important centering part of our lives.
I am going to offer an amendment here to set up a pilot program to have prisoners working.
I talked to a prisoner, he got out, he cannot get a job.
The problem is that this Congress has diminished the amount of work that prisoners can do.
I think it is the most extensive since I have worked in this institution, that there has been so much time spent.
I think it has to be so truly bipartisan that it stands the test no matter who comes at it.
Also, Mr. Werholtz, if you vote for Sam Brownback for Governor you will have one of the finest guys that I know.
I thank whatever is done really has to be so authentically, truly, bipartisan.
I know when Mr. Scott and I put the bill in we had tremendous resistance from the states.
I do not think things have improved personally.
