Vice President Kamala Harris may have lifted portions of a 2007 congressional testimony from a Republican colleague, according to a review of her past statements by the Washington Free Beacon.
When Harris was district attorney for the city of San Francisco, she testified before Congress on behalf of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007. The bill was designed to encourage top legal talent to consider public service by offering a student-loan repayment program for state and local prosecutors.
The bill, although never passed, received bipartisan support and was effectively argued by Harris that many district attorneys’ offices were short-staffed due to the high debt burden of law school, forcing many experienced prosecutors to leave for private sector jobs.
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