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Howard Berman: My question is, to just make clear, my understanding is this amendment, if adopted, will not require or put any of those…

On the recordFebruary 9, 1995
My question is, to just make clear, my understanding is this amendment, if adopted, will not require or put any of those three limitations on. In other words, by definition this is supplanting money. The States are now spending money to operate their prisons. ... it is obvious on the face of what we are doing today this is intended to be supplanting money. It is supplanting what the States are paying out today, which they should not be paying out, because this is a Federal responsibility.
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Howard Berman
California

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Discussing the implications of an amendment related to federal funding for state prisons.

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