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Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs

TIME CHANGE --- Federal Cocaine Sentencing Laws: Reforming the 100-to-1 Crack/Powder Disparity

Type: Full Committee Hearing
Date:
Time: 02:30pm
Location: Select Building-SD226

VIDEO PROVIDED COURTESY OF C-SPAN

NOTICE OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING

TIME CHANGE TO 2:30 p.m.

The hearing on "Federal Cocaine Sentencing Laws: Reforming the 100-to-1 Crack/Powder Disparity" scheduled by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary before the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs for Tuesday, February 12, 2008 will begin at 2:30 p.m. rather than the previously scheduled time of 2:00 p.m.

Chairman Biden will preside.

Member Statements

Panel I

  • James Felman

    Co-Chair, Sentencing Committee
    Criminal Justice Section, American Bar Association
  • The Honorable Richard Hinojosa

    Chair
    U.S. Sentencing Commission
    Washington, DC
  • Gretchen C.F. Shappert

    U.S. Attorney, Western District of North Carolina
    U.S. Department of Justice
  • Reggie B. Walton

    United States District Judge, Member, Criminal Law Committee
    Federal Judicial Conference
    Washington, DC
  • Nora Volkow, M.D.

    Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
    U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
    Washington, DC