Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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The after-school programs that have been disparaged are the kinds of things that will actually reduce gang involvement.
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Taking a look at this issue is something we really need to do. This disparity cannot continue.
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They have recorded the information, but they're saying, 'Trust us, we won't listen to what we recorded,' ... People ought to be concerned.
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Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
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During the same period, the annual number of prisoners returning to communities has also increased several fold.
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A final important equal opportunity issue in education is the current attack on civil rights in the Head Start program.
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Some young athletes are using the drugs with the belief that they can become great in their sport and gain money and fame.
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If we have a crunch, we can only deal with it by cutting spending. We cannot deal with it any other kind of way.
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Obviously, we have work to do to complete the promise of the Brown decision and Dr. King's dream for our nation.
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Many sentences are excessively long because mandatory sentencing policies do not allow sentencing judges the discretion to distinguish between hardened criminals and those amenable to rehabilitation and preparation for successful re-entry.
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When you run up this kind of deficit, we talk about increasing the debt limit, but one thing you have to do is pay interest on all of that debt.
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We have to change directions back to the period of time when we made the tough choices, eliminated the deficit and created the surplus.
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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.
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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.