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On the recordJuly 17, 2001
we cannot take it out of the prisons. The conditions there, I agree, I will be with the gentleman tomorrow or the next day on not granting MFN or PNTR to China, but I just do not think you can take it out of the prisons. The conditions in the prisons are so difficult and so bad. So that is the problem that I have with the amendment. We just cannot take it out of the prisons.
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Tom Wolf
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Discussing the conditions in prisons during a debate on an amendment.

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