John Conyers: “The Treasury Department's gang resistance education amendment is a worthy program, and I think the amount is small…”

“The Treasury Department's gang resistance education amendment is a worthy program, and I think the amount is small enough so that, if it is deleted from prison construction legislation, there will be no great harm done. It is not like we have a whole string of these. This is the only one of this kind that I know that has occurred, and I met several times with the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Ron Noble, who is fully committed to eliminating the influence of gangs through demonstration projects. Now we all complain about the increase of gang participation. Here is something that we can do about it, and so I do not want to jeopardize this provision, and I support very enthusiastically the amendment.”