Bobby Scott supports it.

Madam Speaker, the Help Find the Missing Act, or Billy's Law, will help families of missing persons find their loved ones by strengthening Federal databases about missing persons and unidentified remains. Every year, tens of thousands of…

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…

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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…

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

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…

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

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

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

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.

I think that we have to evaluate a recommendation of relaxing antitrust standards in the context of policies to address the crisis in journalism.

The fact of the matter is we are already paying.

If you target that to those that are at-risk, you could easily spend $10,000 per child per year if you have effective intervention programs.

A lot has been said about a holistic approach. We are dealing with, as chairman of the Crime Subcommittee, how to deal with youth violence...

Providing an educational setting to children when they have been suspended or expelled from their home schools is a better alternative than leaving them with them out on the street.