House Proceeding on Sep 30th, 2009 :: 1:20:55 to 1:23:55
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Robert C. Scott: pleased to recognize the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlelady from california, the gentleman from pennsylvania for their leadership on the issue of campus safety. i rise in support of h.res. 90, a resolution supporting the goals and ideals of the national campus safety awareness month.

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Speech By: Robert C. Scott

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Robert C. Scott: this resolution helps bring awareness to the issue of campus safety. each year college campuses across the nation see a number of criminal offenses, including homicide, forcible sex offenses, aggravated assaults, andarson occurring on their campuses. recent example is the unfortunate murder that occurred at yale university a few weeks ago.

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Robert C. Scott: additionally over the past few years we have seen numerous tragedies occur in colleges and university, including the disastrous event that in virginia tech and northern illinois university. the national campus safety awareness month provides an opportunity for campuses to evaluate theirampus safety practices anengage in efforts to improve campus safety.

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Robert C. Scott: in addition, the campus safety awareness month, one way in which we can improve campus safety, would be be to provide a one-stop shop for universities to obtain safety information. this why i introduced the center to advance, monitor, and preserve university the campus safety act of 2009.

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Robert C. Scott: the rpose of this legislation is to enable our institutions of higher education to easily obtain the best information available on how to keep our campuses safe and how to respond in event of a campu the campus safety act creates a national center for campus public safety which will be administered through the department of justice.

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Robert C. Scott: the center is designed to train campus public safety agencies and state-of-the-art practices to ensure campus safety, encourage research, to strengthen college campus safety and security, and serve as a clearing-house for the dissemination of relevant campus public safety information. this bill passed the house of representatives in february.

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Robert C. Scott: it also passed last year. but it still awaits action from the senate. once the national center for campus public safety is established, it along with events like the national campus awareness month will be able to greatly assist schools in assessing their campus safety initiatives. i commend the gentleman from

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Robert C. Scott: so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having respoed in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid