[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 64 (Thursday, May 15, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4576-S4579]
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  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 
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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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