Tim Scott

Reclaiming my time, on page 2, lines 12 through 19, it says that the State shall require the following: an AIDS test if the nature of the activity would have placed the victim at risk of becoming infected or the victim requested the…

In all due respect, I did not get an answer to my question. The bill would have an impact. I have not been able to determine exactly what that impact would be. But the point of the consensual sex was that they could be in bed not…

If the gentleman would respond, what would be the difference in sentencing? If the two went from Washington, D.C. to Northern Virginia and had consensual sex and shared dirty pictures, what would be the effect of this bill? It is already…

Mr. Speaker, I would just conclude by saying that when police officers give their lives to protect the rest of us, there is really no limit to what we ought to be willing to give back to that family. This is a really symbolic gesture. The…

Mr. Speaker, the amendment has three provisions. One is to disallow any proselytization during the program. It says in the wording ``a participant in a program assisted by Federal funds.'' It also prohibits any discrimination in terms of…

First of all, on the question of whether or not you can discriminate against who you serve, the second part of this amendment deals with that directly, and that is you cannot under any circumstances discriminate on who you serve based on…

Comments have been made about the ability of athletes or students to pray voluntarily. There is no prohibition against that. In fact, in 1995, a circuit court ruled that students, quote, are not enjoined from praying either individually or…

Amendment 5 of the Bill of Rights says that ``no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury except,'' and then it goes on to say, ``nor to be deprived of…

I could ask two questions. One, I would ask, does the gentleman know Virginia is renting out space to other States because we have 3,000 beds we do not need? The other question is, could the gentleman tell me why Kentucky did not get any…

The GEB's decision is consistent with the Court's statement on the record on June 29, 1998 that voluntary payment by IBT officers of the costs of supervision would be a "breach of a fiduciary relationship and something that is forbidden…

That is why the bill is unconstitutional. My colleague just disagrees with the constitutional interpretation of the Supreme Court. We are going to pass an unconstitutional bill.

I would say the provision in the Hoyer-Greenwood bill that allows an exception for the health of the mother is there because the Supreme Court says it has to be there. Otherwise, the bill is unconstitutional. If we pass a bill without that…

This bill will not stop any abortion. It will just require an alternative procedure to be used. We have had no answer to the question of what that alternative should be. What we should do is defeat the motion to discharge the committee…

Without this motion to recommit, the matter will be denied the assistance from a trusted friend or relative. The bill in its present form, without the motion to recommit, does not require parental consent because a minor could go alone. I…

I would acknowledge that the present version is not as bad as what we considered in committee, but we did not reach an agreement.

I wish to respond to the comments of the majority leader. The fact that it is designated as not aid to the school eliminates the Federal enforcement, and there are a lot of things that can be done under Federal enforcement that are exempt…

I wanted to correct the statement made in the earlier comments. It was indicated it required a two-thirds vote of the membership of the House. That was the bill as it had been introduced. The rule that we passed changed the bill, so it is…

I would hope we would begin to debate some of the serious issues before us, like the tobacco settlement, saving Social Security, health care, juvenile justice. But those issues are nowhere to be seen because we have taken polls, and on an…

The bottom line, though, is that mandatory minimums have been studied and are the least, one of the least effective ways to reduce crime. If we are serious about reducing crime, if we are serious about it, we should not pass the mandatory…

I was wondering if somebody over there could respond to the effect of that language on special education students and the ability of private schools to discriminate on national origin and the effect of that language on the Department of…

The half billion dollars in truth-in- sentencing prison funding will not have a measurable effect in the crime rate because States are already spending tens of billions of dollars in prison construction, but this amendment will make the…

If the gentleman will yield; if we are spending $1 billion, plus $10 million is $1.01 billion, it will have zero effect on the crime rate. We need to put the money where it will actually make a difference.

This one has an actual substantive difference from some of the others we have considered, having a lifetime of 8 years. With 8 years, it is 2 years less worse than the rest we have considered, which were defeated by margins of 4 to 1…

We have already spoken about the trivializing of the Constitution. Obviously this process suggests that we are involved in a very trivial situation right now, voting on separate amendments where the only difference is whether sections are…

I think the exercise we are going through now points out how trivial some of this exercise is. This amendment is virtually identical to several that we have previously defeated, as I said, by margins of 3, almost 4 to 1. There is a…