Bobby Scott

When people donate to a charity or through their church, at least they know who they are directly supporting.

I hope we can continue to work together on this budget bill and find an alternative to this reduction of the tax deduction for charitable contributions.

I strongly believe in a balanced budget, as you do. I'm a deficit hawk; and I believe that we must pay for what we spend, just like any American family.

Bobby Scott and I were authors of the bill on prison rape, and this has been a great hearing.

Today at one o'clock, I will reintroduce 'The Federal Prison Work Incentive Act of 2009,' a piece of legislation designed to restore good time in federal prisons and correction facilities.

It is my hope that at the very least $75 million will be maintained and we will find other resources to fully fund The Second Chance Act.

It's common knowledge that our country has become the most imprisoned nation on the face of the earth in both proportion and actual numbers of population.

Does it really make sense for the U.S. to continue to allow millions of dollars to go into a French cultural fund every year?

Performers, too, are creators who deserve and need to be paid.

That is just not right!

This is simply not fair.

It is time they start paying for the music they play.

Five years, 10 years from now, we are not going to be right back where we are--the argument that when you made the loan, you knew who you were lending and what the rules where and, if we went down the road a little bit, we would be…

Well, I mean, what you have is the homeowner over a barrel, didn't want to have to leave the house and be homeless, and you are gouging them for more than you could get under the legal process because you have that leverage over them.

How is the bank any worse off with cram down under bankruptcy--the fact is that the security they have is the cram-down amount--the value of the house is the security for the loan.

It also maintains accommodations for children's health care, higher education, and rejects the cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. It does this, maintaining the middle class tax cuts. So instead of following the reckless fiscal policies of the…

The former speaker indicated that I didn't read the whole section where he said that acquisition does not constitute electronic surveillance. That's true, it doesn't include wiretap, but it does include searches, e-mail review, all kinds…

PAYGO is a very simple concept. If you are going to increase spending, you pay for it. If you are going to cut taxes, you pay for it. You don't go into the ditch. If you have a tax cut, you have to pay for it either with increases of other…

Having just been handed the letter and gone through it very quickly, I would just point out that the last sentence on the first page says, ``The department has a number of recommendations (described below) to clarify the bill and to make…

As you know, Mumia Abu-Jamal has proclaimed his innocence for nearly a quarter century. He has always denied firing the shots that resulted in the death of police officer Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. His defenders, as well as the…

First of all, we will work together on the funding, no question about that. Furthermore, there is not a one-to-one replacement. You have about four people in prison working on what would otherwise be one job.

When I listed the organizations opposed to the bill, I inadvertently left off Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the National Council of Negro Women.

As I understand, the money will be spent for research in the Chesapeake Bay. This is a national priority. And I would hope that the testing and monitoring of the Potomac and Occoquan Rivers, both of which are part of the Chesapeake Bay…

The gentleman asked what is going to happen to the deficit. The red line is the Republican deficit year by year; the blue line is the CBC deficit year by year. We end up with a $2.3 billion surplus, while you are still $163 billion in the…

I would say that if we had actually improved the economy with all those tax cuts, it might have been worth it. But this chart shows that the economic improvement, the number of jobs created since Herbert Hoover, it shows that after we have…