Barbara Boxer: “I am going to give you and my colleagues in the U.S. Senate an opportunity to cut funding...and take those funds away…”

“I am going to give you and my colleagues in the U.S. Senate an opportunity to cut funding...and take those funds away from traveling bureaucrats and put them into after-school programs. I think if we ask ourselves the question right now, right here, what our children will be doing after school today, I really do not think the answer would come back in a way that satisfies us as U.S. Senators, as parents, as grandparents, and, frankly, as community members. Unfortunately, many of our children after school have no place to go, are alone, get into trouble with gang members, or are lured into gangs. Frankly, if you look at the crime statistics, which I will show you later on a chart, the highest crime rate among juveniles occurs from 3 to 6 p.m.”