Political Quotes

“if we are not willing to spend one-tenth of 1 percent to find out where $10 billion is going in terms of programs, construction, and effectiveness, I do not know how anybody could support this program without having this one safety corrective. We just passed slightly earlier an amendment that would allow for evaluating and mandating the efficiency of the construction of prisons, and prison construction. Now we are saying to look at the efficacy of this entire program, the construction and the prisons and the programs contained within this bill is unnecessary because we already know, it is the height of arrogance on our part. If we already knew this we would have built prisons a long time ago. As a matter of fact, the debate is very much in doubt as to how much effectiveness building prisons really is. So I urge the support of the Scott amendment as being very vital to this bill.”