Bobby Scott

Yes, there are fees in the title of the bill; however, in working with the minority, the bill was amended and the fees were taken out. The title did not change because of the amendments, but that's why the fees are not there because we…

This bill does not reduce the disparity from 100-to-1 to 1-to-1. It does not eliminate the mandatory minimums, but it is a step in the right direction and, therefore, I urge my colleagues to support S. 1789.

I want to thank the gentleman from New York and the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Mr. Thompson, for their hard work on this bill. It's an extremely important bill dealing with narcotics on the northern border. I would hope…

I want to thank all the people who have spoken and worked hard on this bill to get it in a form which we believe will pass constitutional muster. Any time you deal with a subject like this you have to deal with the First Amendment. The…

The Recovery Act was passed right down here, and since then we have been making progress. But losing fewer jobs is not good enough. We need to continue this chart. In short order, we will be creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, putting…

This resolution recognizes the important efforts to reduce crime in our Nation's urban areas and to support crime victims. We observed National Urban Crimes Awareness week during the second week of this month. This resolution particularly…

Bobby Scott supports it.

I think to have a rape of a person who goes to prison is unacceptable.

Our goal was to look at whether or not treatment and prevention should be priorities rather than simply punishment, and they are.

Can you tell us what participation there was by FBI agents in enhanced interrogation techniques that everybody in the world, other than a few people in the last Administration, viewed as torture?

We have legislation on the way to the President that would authorize additional funding.

We just recently passed legislation that would give you resources to hire additional agents to address financial fraud.

Can I get your commitment that you will take a closer look at this program and evaluate it on its merits and success?

Now, most of the programs that we have seen by research have shown that they can save more money than they cost.

If you got a 50 percent dropout rate, 100 children, 50 percent drop out, that is 100, that is going to cost you about $5 million in prison expenses in, at least, many identifiable States.

The regulation must be maintained and strengthened through inclusion of ESCA into a reauthorization of ESEA.

You really have to wonder what kind of people would look at a child in the third grade that can't read, knowing that that problem will put them on a trajectory towards prisons, and start building prisons rather than come up with some…

I have introduced the Youth Promise Act, which is very similar, to reduce youth violence, where you bring in law enforcement, education, foster care, the probation department, churches, after-school programs, anybody that has anything to…

One of the things that happens with dropouts is they are very likely to end up in jail.

The Everyone Graduates bill sponsored by Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) achieves this and should be passed.

If you don't have a dropout rate factor, then you have a perverse incentive to let people drop out.

One study showed that African Americans that drop out of high school have about a one-third chance of being in jail when they are 26 to 30 years old.

Those that drop out are much less likely to get a job, make a lot more--businesses don't want to move into areas where there is a high dropout rate.

The Every Student Counts Act introduced by Representative Bobby Scott (H.R. 1569).

It is hard to imagine any effective dropout program that does not save more money than it costs.