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Summer Lee: I am disappointed in the fact that the DOJ lifted the financial moratorium, the funding moratorium on other DOJ agencies…

On the recordApril 16, 2018
I am disappointed in the fact that the DOJ lifted the financial moratorium, the funding moratorium on other DOJ agencies but did not lift it on the BOP.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Jackson Lee expresses disappointment over funding issues affecting the Bureau of Prisons.

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