[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 64 (Thursday, May 15, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4576-S4579]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
FACILITIES
Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate now
proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 44, S. 476, regarding the
Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
I further ask unanimous consent that there be 20 minutes under the
control of Senator Hatch, 10 minutes under the control of Senator
Biden, and 10 minutes under control of Senator Leahy, and no amendments
be in order to the bill; and, finally, following the expiration or
yielding back of the time, the bill be read a third time with no other
intervening action or debate.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The clerk will report the bill.
The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 476) to provide for the establishment of not
less than 2,500 Boys and Girls Clubs of America facilities by
the year 2000.
The Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. HATCH addressed the Chair.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.
Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise today to urge my colleagues to
support S. 476, legislation to further the commitment of the Republican
Congress to support the expansion of the Boys and Girls Clubs of
America, one of the best examples of proven youth crime prevention.
This is not a partisan initiative, however. I am pleased to have the
company of a bipartisan group of Senators, including Senator Biden, the
ranking Democrat on the Youth Violence Subcommittee, Senator Stevens,
the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Gregg, the
chairman of the Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations Subcommittee,
Senator Kohl, who serves on the Judiciary Committee, and, of course,
Senator Thurmond, who has served as a distinguished chairman of the
Judiciary Committee.
Mr. President, the volunteer spirit is alive and well in America. The
Presidents' summit on voluntarism, held recently in Philadelphia,
focused national attention on this aspect of the American people's
generous spirit. Yet, the effects of the legislation we are debating
today will be felt in neighborhoods across the country long after the
spotlight is gone, and long after the speeches are forgotten.
Our legislation addresses our continuing initiative to ensure that,
with Federal seed money, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America are able
to expand to serve an additional 1 million young people through at
least 2,500 clubs by the year 2000. The dedication of all of these
members demonstrates our commitment to both authorize and fund this
effort.
Last year, in a bipartisan effort, the Republican Congress enacted
legislation I authored to authorize $100 million in Federal seed money
over 5 years to establish and expand Boys and Girls Clubs in public
housing and distressed areas throughout our country. With the help of
the Appropriations Committee, we have fully funded this initiative.
The bill we are debating today streamlines the application process
for these funds, and permits a small amount of the funds to be used to
establish a role model speakers' program to encourage and motivate
young people nationwide.
It is important to note that what we are providing is seed money for
the construction and expansion of clubs to serve our young people. This
is bricks and mortar money to open clubs. After they are opened, they
will operate without any significant Federal funds. In my view, this is
a model for the proper role of the Federal Government in crime
prevention.
The days are over when we can afford huge, never-ending, federally
run programs. According to a GAO report last year, over the past 30
years, Congress has created 131 separate Federal programs, administered
by 16 different agencies, to serve delinquent and at-risk youth. These
programs cost $4 billion in fiscal year 1995. Yet we have not made
significant progress in keeping our young people away from crime and
drugs.
What we can and must afford is short-term, solid support for proven
private sector programs--like the Boys and Girls Clubs--that really do
make a difference. Boys and Girls Clubs are among the most effective
nationwide programs to assist youth to grow into honest, caring,
involved, and law-abiding adults.
We know that Boys and Girls Clubs work. Researchers at Columbia
University found that public housing developments in which there was an
active Boys and Girls Club had a 25-percent reduction in the presence
of crack cocaine, a 22-percent reduction in overall drug activity, and
a 13 percent reduction in juvenile crime. Members of Boys and Girls
Clubs also do better in school, are less attracted to gangs, and feel
better about themselves.
There are many distinguished alumni of Boys and Girls Clubs,
including President Clinton and other role models such as actor Denzel
Washington, basketball superstar Michael Jordan, and San Francisco
49ers quarterback Steve Young.
More important, however, are the uncelebrated success stories--the
miracles performed by Boys and Girls Clubs every day. At a Judiciary
Committee hearing on March 19, we heard from one of these miracles.
Amador Guzman, from my State of Utah, told us how he believes the club
in his neighborhood saved his life, by keeping him from gangs, drugs,
and violence.
The reason Boys and Girls Clubs work--and the reason Congress wants
to do more for them--is because they are locally run and depend
primarily on community involvement for their success.
Never have our youth had a greater need for the positive influence of
Boys and Girls Clubs, and never has the work of the Clubs been more
critical. Our young people are being assaulted from all sides with
destructive messages. For instance, drug use is on the rise. Recent
statistics reconfirm that drugs are ensnaring young people as never
before. Overall drug use by youth ages 12 to 17 rose 105 percent
between 1992 and 1995, and 33 percent between 1994 and 1995. 10.9
percent of our young people now use drugs on a monthly basis, and
monthly use of marijuana is up 37 percent, monthly use of LSD is up 54
percent, and monthly cocaine use by youth is up 166 percent between
1994 and 1995.
Our young people are also being assaulted by gangs. By some
estimates, there are more than 3,875 youth gangs, with 200,000 members,
in the Nation's 79 largest cities, and the numbers are going up. Even
my State of Utah has not been immune from this scourge. In Salt Lake
City, since 1992, the number of identified gangs has increased 55
percent, from 185 to 288. The number of gang members has increased 146
percent, from 1,438 to 3,545; and the number of gang-related crimes has
increased a staggering 279 percent, from 1,741 in 1992 to 6,611 in
1996. Shockingly, 208 of these involved drive-by shootings.
Every day, our young people are being bombarded with cultural
messages in music, movies, and television that undermine the
development of core values of citizenship. Popular culture and the
media glorify drug use, meaningless violence, and sex without
commitment.
The importance of Boys and Girls Clubs in fighting drug abuse, gang
recruitment, and moral poverty cannot be overstated. The Clubs across
the country are a bulwark for our young people and deserve all the
support we can give.
Indeed, Federal efforts are already paying off. Using over $15
million in seed money appropriated for fiscal year 1996, the Boys and
Girls Clubs of America opened 208 new clubs in 1996. These clubs are
providing positive places of
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hope, safety, learning and encouragement for about 180,000 more kids
today than in 1995. In my State of Utah, these funds have helped keep
an additional 6,573 kids away gangs, drugs, and crime.
The $20 million appropriated for fiscal year 1997 is expected to
result in another 200 clubs and 200,000 more kids involved in clubs. We
need now to redouble our efforts. The legislation we introduce today
demonstrates our commitment to do that. It will not, and cannot, solve
our juvenile crime problem. We will be bringing other legislation to
the floor that will address, in a comprehensive manner, the urgent
problems of juvenile crime. S. 476, is, however, an important first
step in that endeavor, aimed at stopping youth crime before it starts.
Mr. President, let me just add, this is a terrific bill. It is a
bipartisan initiative. I want to compliment my colleague from Delaware
for the hard work he has done through the years on Boys and Girls
Clubs, and he certainly deserves a lot of the credit for the bill. We
have worked together, and we are going to continue to do so. I hope
that the Congress will pass this in an expeditious fashion to continue
to use one of the best ways of stopping crime and helping kids that our
society has ever known.
Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, let me thank my colleague for his
reference. I think it should be made clear that without the chairman's
strong and wholehearted support and initiation here, we would not be
where we are. I want to, just in a very brief time, review the bidding
here a little bit.
Let me remind everybody that this was in the crime bill, the original
Biden-Hatch crime bill, and ended up having some other iterations
before it was over. But we had provisions in there for prevention.
One of the things that happened was on both sides of the aisle, left,
right, center, was we got into this great debate about whether
prevention works and whether or not the prevention money in the crime
bill was to support prisoners in pink tutus dancing in ballet style,
and all that kind of stuff. We got into big fights about midnight
basketball, and all that.
I am not suggesting we reengage those fights except to make this
following point. The reason why in the original bill a while ago I
specifically singled out Boys and Girls Clubs--I want to be up front
about this--was real simple. It was the one place I knew that we could
get consensus among Democrats and Republicans, liberals and
conservatives, because this is prevention that works. And it was my
view at the time that, if we singled out Boys and Girls Clubs--and we
did, which is kind of unusual to do in a crime bill to single out a
specific nonprofit to make sure they get money. That is a bit unusual.
The reason to do it was, the statistics are overwhelming. Let me give
you a few reasons why this works.
There was a study done by Columbia University that demonstrated--and
I am going to be brief--that public housing sites where there are Boys
Clubs and Girls Clubs, compared with public housing sites without these
clubs, there was a drastic difference. Let me make it clear now, this
study was done, no one disputes--they took public housing sites with
the same demographic makeup, same cities, same populations, same racial
composition, put a Boys and Girls Club in the basements of one, not in
the other.
Here is what the study confirmed. Those public housing projects that
had a Boys and Girls Club in the basement, or wherever they were in the
building, had 13 percent fewer juvenile crimes, 22 percent less drug
activity, and 25 percent less crack presence. This is in the crack
epidemic. Still a big problem. We have other things to worry about,
too. But the bottom line, Mr. President, is it works.
I know the Presiding Officer from Montana has done a lot of work with
kids over the years. He has been involved in things that have to do
with everything from 4-H to rodeos to Lord only knows what. I hear all
these stories he tells me about Montana and about how these kids are
involved. The truth of the matter is you get a kid involved, you have
less chance that kid is going to get involved in something bad.
My mom has an expression that I am sure every one of our moms have
said in different ways, the expression is: ``Remember, Joey, an idle
mind is a devil's workshop.'' The bottom line is you give a kid nothing
to do, he is likely to find trouble. Give a kid nothing to do in an
area where there is nothing but trouble, he or she becomes part of the
trouble. Give a child something to do, an alternative, an escape, a way
out where there is nothing but trouble, give them a safe haven, and you
increase the prospects that they are not going to be in trouble.
So that is why we proposed and passed through the Senate in 1996 $20
million in spending for the first year of a 5-year effort to create
1,000 new Boys and Girls Clubs. Ultimately we got $11 million in the
final appropriations bill.
Senator Hatch and some of our colleagues, Senator Leahy and others
that are mentioned, worked together to provide the second year of
funding in last year's appropriations bill.
If it were not for the fact that Senator Hatch in the majority party,
the leader of the committee, jumped in at that point, I believe the
appropriation would not have been anything. He used his influence and
his weight, got this up on the radar screen and continued to save this
program. So the second year of funding in last year's appropriations
bill came through.
Senator Hatch also worked to pass legislation supporting this
concept, the whole notion, last year. The bottom line is, we are
working together so that we can have a total of 2,500 Boys and Girls
Clubs by the year 2000. This bill does a very important thing. It
simplifies--let me emphasize, it simplifies--the application procedure.
So, although it does not provide additional funding beyond that
already authorized, the simplification is important, letting Boys and
Girls Clubs go straight to the Justice Department. They do not have to
go through their Governors, do not have to go through their State
legislature, do not have to go through their city council. They go
straight to the Justice Department and seek the funding.
This is the simple, straightforward approach that I have always
supported in the Biden crime bill and why I am so pleased that my
colleague, the chairman of the committee, has in fact been so
supportive and led on this.
Last year's bill provided for consultation with the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, an unnecessary requirement. I have
nothing against HUD, but I believe we must get these important
prevention dollars out to the Boys and Girls Clubs throughout the
country as quickly and as efficiently as possible. And this bill well
help do that.
Let me conclude by saying, if we are able to fund 2,500 Boys and
Girls Clubs, it could not come at a more important moment in our
history from a demographic standpoint. There are 39 million children,
Mr. President, under the age of 10 in the United States of America
today, the largest cadre of young people about to enter the crime-
committing years that we have had since the baby boom of those of us
born in the 1940's.
It is a big deal, Mr. President. If we through our police efforts,
through our present efforts, hold the percentage of crime committed by
young people to the same percentage it is now, without one one-
hundredth of 1 percent increase in the amount of crime that is
committed, as a percent of the population, we will in fact still have
about an 8 percent increase in violent crime in America. You know why?
That is how many more kids there are going to be. We better figure out
now before this so-called baby boomlet--that's what the demographers
are referring to--before this baby boomlet hits those crime-committing
years.
I can think of nothing--nothing--that the police can do, nothing that
we can do, that can solve the problem alone without providing safe
havens and alternatives for these children. boys and Girls Clubs are a
proven--a proven--safe haven. A proven safe haven.
So, Mr. President, I urge my colleagues to adopt this legislation. I
hope this bill is a sign that we will continue to work together to deal
with those prevention efforts that work. Another thing all our moms
said to us, ``An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.'' ``An
ounce of prevention.'' This is 2,500 ounces of prevention that will
prevent tens of thousands of pounds of crime. This is a big deal.
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I thank my colleague for his support and allowing me to participate
in this effort.
I yield the floor.
Mr. HATCH. I thank my colleague for his kind remarks.
I think he has summed it up very, very well. So I will not repeat
what he has said. I agree with him. I have to say this is one of the
best programs for youth that we could do. It is the right thing to do,
and I urge all our colleagues to support it.
Mr. LEAHY. Like my colleagues, I too support the expansion of Boys
and Girls Clubs. I would like to ask the author of this legislation,
its principal sponsor and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
whether I am correct that this bill should serve to expand the
availability of Boys and Girls Clubs in rural areas?
Mr. HATCH. That is correct. The bill will change the law to permit
Boys and Girls Clubs to be expanded where needed, and certainly a club
in a rural area could be needed, and make a significant difference to
the young people in that area.
Mr. LEAHY. Do we intend for the funds to be used to expand clubs in
communities under 50,000 in population?
Mr. HATCH. Absolutely. The original language passed last year
expressly included rural areas, but this amendment is intended to make
our intent clearer that not only can rural areas as well as urban
qualify as distressed areas, but also that clubs ought be expanded into
rural areas and smaller communities where needed and, in particular,
into rural areas such as those in my friend's State of Vermont, my
State of Utah, and other States with few Boys and Girls Clubs. I agree
with the Senator that our call for 1,000 new clubs by the year 2001
should include attention to expanding opportunities for young people in
our rural areas and smaller communities.
Mr. LEAHY. So the author of the bill intends for there to be
increased expansion into rural activities by the Boys and Girls Clubs
even beyond the almost 20 percent expended in the first year in rural
areas?
Mr. HATCH. Absolutely. I am as concerned about the threat of drugs
and gangs coming into our rural communities as is the Senator from
Vermont, and I believe strongly that the Boys and Girls Clubs we seek
to establish are a big part of the answer to these threats.
Mr. LEAHY. I thank the Senator for clarifying this point. With that
clarification, I am prepared to support this bill.
I join in supporting S. 476 to provide authority to expand Boys and
Girls Clubs across the country, including both urban and rural areas.
When we passed similar legislation last year, we did it as part of a
legislative package that included the National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act that Senator Kyl and I authored and that
I helped push through during the closing days of the last Congress.
Most important to me, the revised language should serve to expand the
availability of Boys and Girls Clubs in rural areas. The original
language was more restrictive, requiring the grants to be used only for
the purpose of establishing Boys and Girls Clubs in public housing
projects and other distressed areas. I have worked with the Boys and
Girls and know that they understand that rural areas as well as urban
can qualify as distressed areas.
Nonetheless, the new language is more expansive and will give girls
and boys in rural areas greater opportunities to share in Boys and
Girls Clubs and their programs. The revised statute will authorize
grants for establishing and extending facilities where needed.
Particular emphasis continues to be given to housing projects, where
Boys and Girls Clubs have proven effective in preventing youth crime,
and to distressed areas, rural or urban. But the where needed language
should help make expansion into rural areas a greater priority.
Likewise, the removal of the language concerning contracts with HUD
should streamline the expansion process and help make clear that such
expansions are not limited to public housing projects.
The changes made to that program by this bill also permit up to five
percent of the grant funds to be used to establish a role model
speakers' program. Anyone who has seen the Boys and Girls Clubs of
America commercial with Denzel Washington and his coach will know the
kinds of outstanding role models that we are seeking to promote to
encourage and motivate young people to be involved, productive
citizens.
I have seen the outstanding results at the Boys and Girls Club in
Burlington, VT, under the direction of Bob Robinson. The role models
they provide include the outstanding instructors and volunteers who
work in the club's many programs. I have also witnessed the outstanding
results of the Kids `N Kops Program at the University of Vermont with
the cooperation of local law enforcement.
Expansions are proceeding and over 200 new clubs serving 180,000
youth were opened as a result of last year's legislation. I know that
the Burlington Boys and Girls club received $100,000 to help enhance
that Club's outreach efforts. I was glad to receive a letter from the
Boys and Girls Clubs of America indicating that they are in the
planning stages for the development of a new club in Rutland and
researching the feasibility of a club in Essex Junction, as well. I
would hope that with the continuation of this initiative they will look
for opportunities to serve young people in St. Albans, Brattleboro, St.
Johnsbury, Montpelier, and other Vermont locations, as well. I would be
delighted for a sizeable portion of the 1 million additional young
people who we hope will be served by the end of this century to come
from the 145,000 young people in Vermont and those in other rural
areas.
In supporting this bill, I encourage the Boys and Girls Clubs as one
example of a successful youth-oriented program that can help make a
difference in young people's lives and prevent crime and delinquency. I
also support the work of others who are effective with young people,
including our outstanding 4-H programs. In working for the passage of
this measure I have received assurances that other members will join
with me in supporting these other fine programs, as well.
It is nice to see Republican Members support juvenile crime
prevention programs. Only a short time ago Republicans tried to stop
passage of the President's 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act and contended that crime prevention programs were
``pork'' or a waste of funds.
In the juvenile crime bill I sponsored this year, S. 15, we include a
number of initiatives to prevent juvenile crime and youth drug abuse. I
hope that we can expect bipartisan support for those juvenile crime
prevention provisions as we move forward in this Congress so that we
can enact a comprehensive approach to the problem of youth crime. This
measure should not become an excuse for anyone not to join with us to
to bolster comprehensive drug education and prevention for all
elementary and high school students. We should proceed to help create
after school safe havens where children are protected from drugs,
gangs, and crime with activities including drug prevention education,
academic tutoring, mentoring, and abstinence training. This bill is a
step but should not be the end of our efforts to support programs that
help prevent juvenile delinquency, crime, and drug abuse.
I ask unanimous consent that a copy of a letter I just received from
the Boys and Girls Clubs of America be printed in the Record.
There being no objection, the letter was ordered to be printed in the
Record, as follows:
Boys and Girls Clubs
of America,
Rockville, MD, May 8, 1997.
Hon. Patrick J. Leahy,
U.S. Senate, Washington, DC.
Dear Senator Leahy: Last week when the Judiciary Committee
discussed S. 476 I heard your concerns, and if possible, I
would like to clarify what we are trying to do with this Bill
and what we have done with previous appropriations.
Our goal within the state of Vermont is to strengthen the
youth development services currently being provided. In
addition, we are working to increase both the number of local
Boys & Girls Club facilities and youth being served
throughout the state.
Just this past year, we passed $100,000 through to the Boys
& Girls Clubs of Burlington, VT, to enhance the Club's
outreach efforts. Today, we are in the planning stages for
the development of a Boys & Girls Club in Rutland, VT, and
are researching the feasibility of a Club in Essex Junction,
VT. I
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give you every assurance that these efforts will remain a
priority.
Nationally, with Boys & Girls Clubs of America's 1996
appropriation, we opened 208 Boys & Girls Clubs and served
180,000 new boys and girls. All told, Boys & Girls Clubs now
serve some 2.6 million young people throughout America,
including many in rural and semi-rural communities. Our
planned growth for 1997, with the assistance of our current
appropriation, will continue at this same pace.
Upon passage and successful implementation of S. 476, we
plan on serving 1,000,000 new boys and girls throughout the
United States. Many of the children in Vermont who are not
currently being served--will be.
Senator Leahy, you have been a friend to Boys & Girls Clubs
and to many youth organizations over the years. We hope that
you can now help us pass S. 476 and help us reach 1,000,000
new boys and girls.
Thank you and we look forward to working with you on this
and other issues that help America's children and families.
Sincerely,
Robbie Callaway,
Senior Vice President.
Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, today I rise in strong support of S. 476,
the Boys and Girls Clubs of America Act of 1997, which I have
cosponsored. This important legislation will give seed money to build
1,000 additional Boys and Girls Clubs across America, with special
emphasis on establishing clubs in public housing projects and
distressed areas.
In Alaska, and across the Nation, kids are reaping the benefits of
Boys and Girls Clubs. They are safe places where kids can go after
school to learn and have fun. Boys and Girls Clubs are places where
they find role models, and where they can explore their own talents and
skills. In 1995 there were 8,000 Alaskans participating in Boys and
Girls Clubs; today more than 14,000 young Alaskans are Boys and Girls
Club members. In fact many of my staff are alumni of these clubs in
Alaska.
This seed money will insure that more than 1 million more young
Americans will have a safe place to grow and learn by the year 2000.
This is a model program supplying the construction cost for the clubs
and giving youths in depressed communities a chance to succeed. Studies
by Columbia University have shown that in areas of public housing where
there are Boys and Girls Clubs Juvenile crime has dropped 13 percent.
I thank Senator Hatch and the other cosponsors of this important
legislation for their hard work and dedication. I look forward to
seeing more Boys and Girls Clubs across our great Nation.
Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I am prepared to yield back the remainder
of my time.
Would the Senator from Delaware yield back the remainder of his time?
Mr. BIDEN. I yield back the remainder of my time.
Mr. HATCH. I yield back the remainder of my time as well as Senator
Leahy's time, I am authorized to say.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the engrossment and third
reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read
the third time, and passed, as follows:
S. 476
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. 2,500 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS BEFORE 2000.
(a) In General.--Section 401(a) of the Economic Espionage
Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 13751 note) is amended by striking
paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
``(2) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to provide
adequate resources in the form of seed money for the Boys and
Girls Clubs of America to establish 1,000 additional local
clubs where needed, with particular emphasis placed on
establishing clubs in public housing projects and distressed
areas, and to ensure that there are a total of not less than
2,500 boys and girls Clubs of America facilities in operation
not later than December 31, 1999.''.
(b) Accelerated Grants.--Section 401 of the Economic
Espionage Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 13751 note) is amended by
striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:
``(c) Establishment.--
``(1) In general.--For each of the fiscal years 1997, 1998,
1999, 2000, and 2001, the Director of the Bureau of Justice
Assistance of the Department of Justice shall make a grant to
the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for the purpose of
establishing and extending Boys and Girls Clubs facilities
where needed, with particular emphasis placed on establishing
clubs in and extending services to public housing projects
and distressed areas.
``(2) Applications.--The Attorney General shall accept an
application for a grant under this subsection if submitted by
the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and approve or deny the
grant not later than 90 days after the date on which the
application is submitted, if the application--
``(A) includes a long-term strategy to establish 1,000
additional Boys and Girls Clubs and detailed summary of those
areas in which new facilities will be established, or in
which existing facilities will be expanded to serve
additional youths, during the next fiscal year;
``(B) includes a plan to ensure that there are a total of
not less than 2,500 Boys and Girls Clubs of America
facilities in operation before January 1, 2000;
``(C) certifies that there will be appropriate coordination
with those communities where clubs will be located; and
``(D) explains the manner in which new facilities will
operate without additional, direct Federal financial
assistance to the Boys and Girls Clubs once assistance under
this subsection is discontinued.''.
(c) Rose Model Grants.--Section 401 of the Economic
Espionage Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 13751 note) is amended by
adding at the end the following:
``(f) Role Model Grants.--Of amounts made available under
subsection (e) for any fiscal year--
``(1) not more than 5 percent may be used to provide a
grant to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for
administrative, travel, and other costs associated with a
national role-model speaking tour program; and
``(2) no amount may be used to compensate speakers other
than to reimburse speakers for reasonable travel and
accommodation costs associated with the program described in
paragraph (1).''.
Mr. HATCH. I move to reconsider the vote.
Mr. BIDEN. I move to lay that motion on the table.
The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
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