Political Quotes

“Madam President, soon I will offer a unanimous consent request with regard to a bill that would reform and reauthorize Federal juvenile justice programs. This bill is known as the Supporting Youth Opportunity and Preventing Delinquency Act of 2016. It passed the other Chamber last month by a vote of 382-29. The bipartisan House bill is modeled closely to one that I introduced over a year ago with the Senator from Rhode Island, Mr. Whitehouse. That legislation was titled the ``Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act.'' It has 19 Senate cosponsors and cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee, which I chair, without a single dissenting vote last year. The House companion before us today also won the unanimous approval of a committee in the other Chamber before passing the House with overwhelming support a few weeks ago. The two bills are remarkably similar in most respects, indicating their objectives. One such objective is to extend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act for 5 more years. That Federal statute was last reauthorized in 2002, and it is long overdue for an update. Congress is still funding juvenile justice programs that expired in 2007, nearly a decade ago. I think my colleagues know of the hard work of Senator Enzi, chairman of the Budget Committee, and a program that he has of the hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money we are spending that has not been authorized by the authorizing committees.…”