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Albert Russell Wynn: “I rise because I have to point out that just yesterday, after the gentleman tells us today that this money is for…”

On the recordFebruary 10, 1995
I rise because I have to point out that just yesterday, after the gentleman tells us today that this money is for prisons and should only be used for prisons, just yesterday, when we were debating the question of unallocated funds, the gentleman hurriedly put together an amendment to send these unallocated funds back to the Federal Government, not to the local governments that he says ought to be the decisionmaking entities, but rather back to Federal Government to build Federal courthouses.
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Albert Russell Wynn
Maryland

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Addressing the allocation of funds during a debate on law enforcement and prison funding.

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