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Lincoln Chafee: “Let me just say again, Mr. President, I am concerned about the number of sanctions we would be adding to the States…”

On the recordMarch 5, 1998
Let me just say again, Mr. President, I am concerned about the number of sanctions we would be adding to the States under this. I have grave concern whether we might well have a backlash. We had a very solid vote on stern sanctions involved in the Lautenberg-DeWine amendment. There are sanctions in the underlying bill we have dealing with repeat offenders. There are sanctions in the legislation that the Senator from South Dakota is going to propose immediately. So I am worried that there could well be a backlash in the States and particularly, when we go to conference, that the attitude might be to just dispose of all of these sanctions. So that is the concern that I have.
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Lincoln Chafee
Rhode Island
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Expressing concerns about the potential backlash from adding sanctions to states.

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