Press Releases
August 5, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA-03), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security on the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on the United States Senates confirmation of Elena Kagan as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States:
August 3, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC Today, President Obama took the first step toward ending the unfair federal crack cocaine law by signing into law the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010.Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-3) led the effort in the House of Representatives to pass this historic legislation and has led the effort in the Congress to address the crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentencing disparity since his arrival. He issued the following statement in connection with the signing today:
July 28, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, issued the following statement on passage of S. 1789, the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010:"Today, S. 1789, the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, historic bipartisan legislation, was passed by the House of Representatives. This bill will reduce the100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine in federal law to 18-to-1.
July 26, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC Today, Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott submitted the following statement into the Congressional Record in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act:
July 23, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC Virginia Congressmen Randy Forbes, Glenn Nye, Rob Wittman, and Bobby Scott and Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner released the following statement after reports that the Defense Business Board (DBB), the Pentagons independent board of economic and business advisers, is expected to recommend that Defense Secretary Robert Gates eliminate the Joint Forces Command:
July 22, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC Virginia Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner and Congressmen Glenn Nye, Jim Moran, Randy Forbes, Bobby Scott, and Rob Wittman yesterday sent a letter to Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norman Schwartz advocating the assignment of an additional F-22 Raptor squadron at Langley Air Force Base (LAFB). A decision by the Air Force is expected soon.
July 12, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC Representative Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, will host a bipartisan forum on H.R. 2324, the Closing the Gun Show Loophole Act, on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, along with other cosponsors.
July 8, 2010
NEWPORT NEWS, VA Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA-03) will tour Operation Smile in Norfolk at 10:00 am this morning.
July 2, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC On Tuesday, July 6, 2010, Representative Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-Virginia) will host a forum to promote the Youth PROMISE Act. The Youth PROMISE Act (H.R. 1064) was introduced in February 2009 by Representative Scott and Representative Mike Castle (R-Delaware).
July 1, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC U.S. Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner and Representatives Glenn Nye, Bobby Scott, Randy Forbes, and Rob Wittman advocated cancelling the Navys proposal to homeport a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at Naval Station (NS) Mayport, Fla., following Secretary of Defense Gates recent directive to the military departments to trim more than $10 billion in Department of Defense (DoD) from future budgets.