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“as a cosponsor of the Cochran amendment, I commend our colleague from Mississippi. He identifies a very legitimate and serious problem. There are a lot of terrific programs that people are engaged in across the country in antiviolence efforts. I recently participated in a dinner here in Washington with people who came from cities from across the country--Oakland, Boston, Chicago, New York, Detroit--people who are not in local government, State Government, people running boys clubs, girls clubs, after-school programs that are very successful. You do not hear about them. It is the child who engages in an act of violence who gets the headline. For obvious reasons we do not read about the child who goes off in the afternoon where there is an alternative to just hanging out. Too many of these ideas are left at the local level. What the Senator from Mississippi is achieving with this amendment is to make sure that these good ideas get known by other communities. Dissemination of information is critically important if these ideas are going to reach other communities. I commend the Senator for the amendment and urge its adoption.”