Bill Clinton actually said...

Funding COPS at the requested level of $1.4 billion is consistent with the Bipartisan Budget Agreement and would enable us to achieve the goal of hiring 100,000 additional police officers by the year 2000.

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Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 2267 - Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related...

09/23/1997

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