Mr. Chairman. I simply want to make an observation on the comments made earlier by the gentleman from Maryland only to the extent of explaining once more that the unallocated funds in the prison construction program. if the States do not claim those moneys. which I think they will claim virtually all of them. that is a bone of contention I suppose with some of the others of the other side. but if they do not claim all of the money even under the 510 billion allocated here. then the moneys here are cordoned off and reserved for use by the appropriators for use in the expenses of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for investigators and for expenses of the Bureau of Prisons. the Federal Bureau of Investigation. and the U.S. attorneys for activities and operations related to the investigation. prosecution. and conviction of persons accused of serious violent felony and incarceration of persons convicted of such offenses. So it is not court houses and it has very direct preferences related to what we are doing here today in trying to get the kind of money necessary to the States that they can take this group of prisoners. these felons off the streets and lock them up for very extended periods of time. And the gentleman wants to take $21/5 billion out of this today so that he can urge you next week that he is going to put that money in prevention programs instead of into building more prisons.
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