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On the recordJune 16, 1997
I am acting in a bit of a dual capacity here. I am comanaging the bill that is before us. But in the meantime let me...thank him for the knowledge he has brought to this body as a former prosecutor, an attorney general in his State, and as a former U.S. attorney running a Federal operation in his State as well, and for the vigor with which he has attacked the obvious problem. It is only of late that most people are acknowledging we should be focusing on juvenile crime. He in his capacity within his State both as a Federal official and a State official has been focused on it for some time. He and I have some outstanding disagreement on how to approach this, but we are substantially in agreement.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Acknowledging a colleague's efforts on juvenile crime during Senate floor debate.

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