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Harry Reid: “I say to my friend, the lead Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Nevada is an interesting State. Seventy percent of the…”

On the recordOctober 5, 2000
I say to my friend, the lead Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Nevada is an interesting State. Seventy percent of the people in Nevada live in the metropolitan Las Vegas area. Another about 20 percent live in the Reno metropolitan area. The 10 percent who are spread out around the rest of the State cover thousands and thousands of square miles, and there are many small communities that do not have the resources that the big cities have to provide, for example, bulletproof vests. I say to my friend from Vermont, do you agree that people who work in rural America in law enforcement deserve the same protection as those who work in urban centers throughout America?
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

Editor's note · Context

Discussing law enforcement resources in rural versus urban areas.

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