Jeff Sessions actually said...

"I would just note that perhaps the authorization of funding to create tasks forces and studies of these kind of crimes would be an appropriate role for the Federal Government."

"I think it is overly broad. I'm pretty confident of that."

"I believe deeply in the Federal legal system, that we need to get it right."

"So it wouldn't be the words, but it would be the actual sexual orientation, or gender, or race of the person that would make the decision?"