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On the recordApril 13, 2010
Well let me thank you for your testimony and say that between both Ranking Member Wolf who has been really at the vanguard of a lot of the efforts around drug treatment, and the Second Chance Program, and just working with alternatives to incarceration, and myself, there is a lot of empathy for these types of efforts all across the country.
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Chaka Fattah
Pennsylvania

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Fattah expresses support for drug treatment and alternatives to incarceration.

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