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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS^JUNE 13, 1996 110 STAT. 4473 (b) SENSE OF THE HOUSE. — It is the sense of the House of Representatives that in order to beilance the Federal budget Congress should consider alternative approaches to budgeting for emergencies, including codifying the definition of an emergency, establishing contingency funds to pay for emergencies, and fully offsetting the costs of emergencies with rescissions of spending authority that would have been obligated but for the rescission. SEC. 423. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON FUNDING TO ASSIST YOUTH AT RISK. (a) FINDINGS. —The Senate finds that— (1) there is an increasing prevalence of violence and drug use among this country's youth; (2) in recognizing the magnitude of this problem, the Federal Government must continue to maximize efforts in addressing the increasing prevalence of violence and drug use among this country's youth, with necessary adherence to budget guidelines and proven program effectiveness; (3) the Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that between 1985 and 1994, juvenile arrests for violent crime increased by 75 percent nationwide; (4) the United States Attorney General reports that 20 years ago, fewer than half our cities reported gang activity and now, a generation later, reasonable estimates indicate that there are more than 500,000 gang members in more than 16,000 gangs on the streets of our cities resulting in more than 580,000 gang-related crimes in 1993; (5) the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention reports that in 1994, law enforcement agencies made over 2,700,000 arrests of persons under age 18, with juveniles accoim^ting for 19 percent of all violent crime arrests across the country; (6) the Congressional Task Force on National Drug Policy recently set forth a series of recommendations for strengthening the criminal justice and law enforcement effort, including domestic prevention efforts reinforcing the idea that prevention begins at home; (7) the Office of National Drug Control Policy reports that between 1991 and 1995, marijuana use among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders has increased and is continuing to spiral upward; and (8) the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention reports that in 1993, substance abuse played a role in over 70 percent of rapes, over 60 percent of incidents of child abuse, and almost 60 percent of murders nationwide. (b) SENSE OF THE SENATE. —It is the sense of the Senate that the ftinction totsds and aggregates underlying this concurrent resolution on the budget assume that— (1) sufficient funding should be provided to programs of proven program effectiveness which assist youth at risk to reduce illegal drug use and the incidence of youth crime and violence; (2) priority should be given to determine "what works" through scientifically recognized, independent evaluations of existing programs to maximize the Federal investment and efforts should be made to reform those programs of no proven benefit;

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