Thank you very much for your testimony, I appreciate it.

How much longer can this Nation continue spending $60 billion a year building new prison cells, with minimal return on investment compared to drug courts?

this is really no time to back off investment in institutions such as the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Unfortunately a group, the Drug Policy Alliance has apparently made numerous claims about drug courts before this subcommittee that simply are not true.

We need to deal with the front end and stop sending so many people to prison.

I think the Congress has fundamentally and this Administration and previous Administrations have failed the American Indians.

In closing, I want to thank you, Chairman Wolf and Mr. Fattah, for your personal commitment to crime prevention.

We have got to get control of the entitlements and close these tax loopholes.

Fairfax County was awarded federal funding through a five-year competitive grant to establish the Evening Reporting Center.

Spend your money making sure people know what you are doing.

The Obama administration has failed. He walked away from the Simpson-Bowles Commission, and the Congress, the Republican Congress, has failed.

I would also thank Chairman Wolf who represents my locality, Fairfax County, Virginia, for his help in supporting our many gang-related issues that are priorities in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia.

We are moving it through the Congress to celebrate George Washington's birthday on his real birthday.

Justice Kennedy anticipated this very thing in his Olmstead writing. He said it would be a tragic event...

I want to thank Members of this committee on both sides of the aisle for supporting $40 million for drug courts in fiscal year 2012.

But fighting waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Government is not a partisan issue.

It is time that the Government put the best interests of taxpayers first.

AFSA strongly endorses S-2179, the Military and Veterans Educational Reform Act of 2012, which was recently introduced by Senator Jim Webb.