I think we are building more prisons, putting more people away when we ought to be putting more money into training and work.

I know when Mr. Scott and I put the bill in we had tremendous resistance from the states.

I thank whatever is done really has to be so authentically, truly, bipartisan.

Also, Mr. Werholtz, if you vote for Sam Brownback for Governor you will have one of the finest guys that I know.

I think it has to be so truly bipartisan that it stands the test no matter who comes at it.

I think it is the most extensive since I have worked in this institution, that there has been so much time spent.

The problem is that this Congress has diminished the amount of work that prisoners can do.

I talked to a prisoner, he got out, he cannot get a job.

I am going to offer an amendment here to set up a pilot program to have prisoners working.

I think a job is the most important, centering thing, for all of us, an important centering part of our lives.

We are going to offer an amendment that sets up a program whereby prisoners can work on making products that are no longer made in the United States.

I think there is a unique opportunity. I think we are coming to a storm economically.

People in prisons are people. They have moms and dads and husbands and wives and kids. And they are not statistics.

It takes money to save money.

I think it is interesting. Kansas is different than, I mean, you have different areas.

I mean, that is a legitimate, we think a legitimate question.

It is fair to say Congress has just made it hard.

I do not think you can put a man in prison for years and not give him work. I just do not think you can.