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On the recordMay 20, 2009
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.
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Roscoe Bartlett
Maryland

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Bartlett urges Congress to compromise on cocaine sentencing reform.

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