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On the recordSeptember 29, 1999
If I recall correctly--I would like to ask the Senator from Washington--at one point, after many thousands of these policemen had been hired and crime rates were coming down, did not the same Republican Party object to extending the President's 100,000 COPS Program and say we should give this money to States and they could decide what to do with it?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Questioning Republican opposition to the extension of the COPS Program during a discussion on crime rates.

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