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.
Roscoe Bartlett: “I hope that my colleagues will not allow the pursuit of the perfect to prevent the potential adoption of a compromise…”
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Bartlett urges Congress to compromise on cocaine sentencing reform.
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