03/13/2017
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"And we know in the Senate if we do not get some bipartisan agreement, nothing is going to happen."
"Even in the midst of the current reform effort, no bill before Congress would abolish civil asset forfeiture and I would not support one if it were before the Congress."
"But as asset forfeiture is currently practiced, nothing is obliging the Government to control itself."
"As Madison remarked in Federalist 51, in framing a government which is to be administered by man over man, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the govern..."