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Continue to address outdated sentencing laws. Unethical prosecutors. We will communicate the experience of criminal defendants. Our sons and our daughters and our cousins and next door neighbors. The defendants in our communities that they have confident council. You will see the Congressional Black Caucus fighting for targeted funding for persistent communities. They are at least 300 native counties in the United States where 20 or more of the population has been living below the poverty line not since the recession started but for the last 30 years. The Congressional Black Caucus will be advocating what i will call the clyburn plan. Some call it the 10 20, 30 plan that directs at least 10 of the grands and digressionary budget be targeted to the communities. This is not a part stan issue. They represent more than the democratic members. That means we will call on the republican conference to join with the Democratic Caucus and lass legislation to address persistent 54 efforter in ame
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