Chaka Fattah: “I understand the spirit of the chairman's statement. I just want to comment that one of the things that we have done is…”

“I understand the spirit of the chairman's statement. I just want to comment that one of the things that we have done is we have worked over a number of years and doubled the amount of money going into youth mentoring. I think that the chairman and I agree with the spirit of your amendment and that it is a much more worthy investment for the country to keep our young people on the straight and narrow than to try to repair, as has been said, a broken adult. We continue to have an interest in building this part of the appropriations bill. Notwithstanding the complicated set of rules relative to the authorized and the non-authorized portion, we continue to want to work with you as we go forward on this matter.”