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On the recordMarch 20, 2022
I negotiated a revision of that measure from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1 with Senator Jeff Sessions.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin discusses efforts to change sentencing disparities for crack cocaine.

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