I hope that my colleagues will not allow the pursuit of the perfect to prevent the potential adoption of a compromise that would reduce the unjustified current 100 to 1 disparate ratio in the treatment of crack compared to powder cocaine.
Bartlett urges Congress to compromise on cocaine sentencing reform.
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I continue to be concerned that we spend billions of dollars on weapon systems only to change the underlying requirement and terminate the program.
That is testimony to our inability to adequately communicate with our constituents the average constituent believes that if we just didn't have any earmarks-- and now we don't-- that if we cut out foreign aid and if we cut out waste, fraud…
Sir, when I was a little boy, my mother impressed on me that an intent to deceive was the same thing as a lie.
If we are serious about not cutting large amounts of funding from the defense budget, something else has to give.
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