Jeff Sessions actually said...

"Our budget would eliminate that procedure. It's something I've opposed, but it's stuck."

"I think that's where we are. It can help us in determining a number of issues, particularly in our Civil Rights Division."

"I believe we can be able to do the grant program at certainly no more expense than currently exists, and maybe better, with our deep experience in grant making in the Department of Justice."

"I don't think that statement needs modifying, but it's obviously in context that the President of the United States clearly has a constitutional power to execute pardons."