Floor Statements
January 6, 2011
January 06, 2011Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Thank you, and I appreciate your hard work. Thank you for organizing this Special Order so we can discuss the problems with repealing health care....
Issues:Health Care
December 21, 2010
December 21, 2010Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Madam Speaker, H.R. 4748 amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 to require the Director of the National Drug Control...
December 21, 2010
December 21, 2010Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Madam Speaker, the primary purpose of this bill is to provide, for the first time, specific programs to assist children who are victims of the brutal and d...
December 16, 2010
December 16, 2010Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor veteran Richmond Times-Dispatch journalist Tyler Whitley. Mr. Whitley has been a newspaper reporter in Richmond, Virgi...
December 16, 2010
December 16, 2010Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I rise in opposition to the bill because its passage will make it impossible to ever balance the Federal budget....
Issues:Federal Budget
December 7, 2010
December 7, 2010Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, House Resolution 1540 supports the goal of eliminating illegal marijuana cultivation on Federal lands, and calls on the Director of the Office o...
December 7, 2010
December 7, 2010Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, S. 3998, the Criminal History Background Checks Pilot Extension Act of 2010, will extend the national child safety pilot program for an addition...
December 7, 2010
December 7, 2010Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3353 will allow the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa to be treated as two separate entities for the purposes...
December 7, 2010
December 7, 2010Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, H.R. 6412 is a short, but very important, piece of legislation. The bill will allow State sentencing commissions to obtain direct national crimi...
December 2, 2010
December 2, 2010Mr. SCOTT of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, I served on the special subcommittee appointed to investigate this matter, and dissented from the subcommittee report....