09/12/1997
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"Funding COPS at the requested level of $1.4 billion is consistent with the Balanced Budget Agreement and would enable us to achieve the goal of hiring 100,000 additional police officers by the year 20..."
"This bill takes important steps in that direction."
"We appreciate the Committee's continued support for law enforcement and other Department of Justice activities."
"We will never jail our way out of America's problems, and you know that."