There Were Several Drug Policy Amendments to the CJS Bill
There were three several other votes, though, that are important to know about. One of them, which passed, is a mean-spirited amendment to block the clemency initiative that Pres. Obama and AG Holder are taking. If it becomes law it will seek to prevent the administration from transferring staff temporarily to increase the Pardon Attorney Office's capacity. There was another good amendment that passed, though, by Rep. Steve Cohen, which shifts $5 millions of DEA funding, to spend it instead on grants to state and local police agencies to help them reduce the backlog in rape testing kits. Cohen sponsored another amendment that didn't get passed, which have shifted three times as much money from the DEA to the Legal Services Corporation.
We have info, including how every member of Congress voted, online here. There's a zipcode lookup form you can use, a the top of the page, to identify your own US Representatives and how they voted.
Update: There were more relevant votes than I'd realized when I wrote this. One of them had to do with hemp. We'll add them as able.
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StopTheDrugWar.org thanks for the detailed info, ie how every Congressman voted etc, no other site out there has this info at least not as fast as you guys had. I have the feeling with the Alaskan vote coming up in November, plus the passing of this amendment, that drug law reform news will be picking up and becoming really exciting again can't wait
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I thought these guys were for personal freedoms and getting the government out of people's lives?I guess they only help the super rich people by keeping us out of their personal space?I guess they also promised to keep private,for profit prisons,full?Works out so well,doesn't it?
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