Barbara Boxer: “I commend my friend from Illinois. A long time ago, he and I talked about the importance of having a school safety fund…”

“I commend my friend from Illinois. A long time ago, he and I talked about the importance of having a school safety fund where if schools felt they needed assistance, whether it was to purchase equipment--a metal detector--whether it was to teach the children about how to resolve their differences without violence, that we should set this up in a way that local schools could put together their own programs. I want to ask my friend this: There is a lot of talk around here of local control. Isn't this what my friend is doing, he is designing a grant program so if school districts decide they want to partake, if they have this problem, they have an opportunity to do so?”