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May 10, 2012
Scott Opposes Republican Budget Reconciliation Bill
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House of Representatives considered H.R. 5652, the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012, which replaces sequestration (automatic across the board spending cuts) for 2013. Sequestration was authorized by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and was triggered last November when the so-called Super Committee failed to report a plan to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next decade. Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott issued the following statement in opposition to the legislation: "Balancing the budget requires making tou...
Apr 30, 2012
Scott Takes Action To Combat High Gas Prices
WASHINGTON, DC - This past week, Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) and other House Democrats introduced H.R. 5186, the Halt Index Trading of Energy Commodities (HITEC) Act, which would help hand back control of investments in oil and other energy commodities to airlines, trucking companies and other legitimate investors, and help dull the expensive impact speculators are having on our oil and other energy prices. The legislation would bar Wall Street speculators from investing in financial products if they include energy, and it would phase out oil and ...
May 15, 2012
BORDER TUNNEL PREVENTION ACT OF 2012
Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Madam Speaker, the possibility of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction being transported through border tunnels is frightening. The possibility of narcotics or trafficking victims being transported through tunnels is disturbing. And I have real concerns about tunnels being used for run-of-the-mill illegal immigration and to smuggle goods or merchandise. But these things are already illegal. And the penalty for doing any of these things through a tunnel is already double what it would be if the unlawful activity had not made use of a tu...
May 08, 2012
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2013
Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Davis amendment. The United States locks up a higher portion of its population than any country on Earth. And one of the contributing factors is the high rate of recidivism--people who get out of prison and then turn around, mess up, and return to prison.Before the Second Chance Act of 2008, the Department of Justice's statistics reflected that about two-thirds of the offenders released from prison--two-thirds--were re-arrested within 2 years. Now that's down in some States to one-half. In my home Stat...
