Joe Cunningham: “I laud the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Scott]. He and I have worked on the Committee on Education and the Workforce…”

“I laud the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Scott]. He and I have worked on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and if the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Scott] could listen for a moment, I do not have time to yield, but I would like the gentleman to really listen to what I have to say, because I have worked with the gentleman on the committee. Let me tell my colleagues what some of our frustrations are. The amendments and the substitute focus on programs that are working from my colleagues' side. We find ourselves in a very critical situation today, and we find that in many cases it is not working. Many of us, and I have had Members from the other side come across, a lot of us have personal problems with our own children that we are looking at. Do we want our children in prison systems? No. We want them in a boot camp where they can be taken care of where there are counselors, and not even juveniles, but maybe a first-time offender that we can reach out to. However, we have been stymied, and I would like to go over a few of those frustrations. I have just met with the police chief in the District of Columbia, and yet there has been very little activity between law enforcement and the schools and the education systems.”