#pro

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#any #chance #crime #desperately #fight

These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#adequate #against #all americans #attacks #ensure

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#debt #direction #eating #every #interest

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#encouragement #enforcement #even #federal #federal law

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#law #matter #patient #persistent #politicians

The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#about #appropriated #been #bills #ever

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#decision #educational #envisioned #equal #opportunity

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#courses #credits #development #education #elimination

While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#aware #children #dangerous #ensure #get

The combination of a blazer over any T-shirt with a pair of jeans is foolproof. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#blazer #combination #foolproof #jeans #over