Harold Rogers: “H.R. 3421 provides an additional $616,282,000 in funding, after scorekeeping adjustments.”

In closing, I ask my colleagues to join me in this celebration, and to always keep our young ones in mind as we continue in Congress to make this nation a better place for them all.

Many of the speakers on this amendment this afternoon have no idea of the depth of poverty with which we are trying to deal in most of Appalachia. Mr. Chairman, I submit to the gentleman from Florida that the unemployment rate in Naples or…

Yet, little William sits on that exciting threshold--filled with great opportunity and hope.

$140,000,000 for the COPS program--$117,500,000 for hiring, $10,000,000 for community prosecutors; and $12,500,000 for management and administration.