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On the recordJuly 14, 2010
this committee, in an extraordinary bipartisan effort, has reduced the disparity in a bill that we passed from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin notes the bipartisan effort to reform sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine.

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