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On the recordMay 20, 2009
I recognized in 2002 that this ratio that had been adopted in haste and driven by fear was not justified by the facts.
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Roscoe Bartlett
Republican · Maryland

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Roscoe Bartlett reflects on the unjustified disparity in sentencing for crack versus powder cocaine.

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