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Bill Delahunt: I would seriously contest the validity of any study that shows that. This amendment should be defeated, if we are going…

On the recordAugust 4, 1998
I would seriously contest the validity of any study that shows that. This amendment should be defeated, if we are going to get the 85 percent rule adopted in the other remaining States, the remaining ones other than the 28 that have done it. I urge in the strongest of terms that the Scott amendment be defeated.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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Debating the validity of a GAO report on truth in sentencing and urging the defeat of an amendment.

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