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On the recordApril 29, 2014
These are penalties for dealers, not users. In the midst of the heroin epidemic, as I said to you, I think that this makes no sense.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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Grassley argues against reducing penalties for drug dealers amid a heroin crisis.

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