Bobby Scott

“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.”

“The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.”

“It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.”

“Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.”

“Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.”

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

“And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.”

“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.”

“We can fight Big Industry.”

“There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.”

“The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.”

“We can be more inclusive.”

“I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.”

“Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.”