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Gary Franks: Then we give that person three options: Find a job and support your children, go to jail, or you have a State-supported…

On the recordMay 4, 1994
Then we give that person three options: Find a job and support your children, go to jail, or you have a State-supported type job as we talked about before, community service type job. We also within our bill talk about training and we talk about obviously trying to--
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Gary Franks
Republican · Connecticut

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Discussing options for individuals in a legislative proposal.

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