Political Quotes

“I want to say I think we are getting at a part of this amendment now that I raised and which has not been really developed by the other side until right now. There is a difference here between a block grant approach and between our proposing to help those States that want to incarcerate violent criminals longer. We have debated that and I presume in a few minutes we are going to vote. But the gentleman from Michigan's reference to alternative confinement that might be allowed under the bill, that is the language that was used in the crime bill to mean other than confinement such as community corrections. And I have suggested twice, and I am now suggesting a third time, that really may be the bigger difference in the amendment in this bill, that the amendment would allow block grants for nonconfinement alternatives.”