Jeff Sessions

I do not think we should give a preference to military commission trials simply because the enemy attacked civilian people rather than military people.

I think the idea that a captured combatant who, if eligible to be tried because they have committed violations of the laws of war, would be tried in military commissions is only common sense and part of our history.

I think this is causing quite a bit of concern.

But I do think that we are doing a better job about competence of counsel, and the training strikes me as a very valuable thing.

We are spending a lot of money, I am telling you. The entire debt of the United States of America will triple in 10 years.

I think the fact that you have, in Mississippi, 11 cases overturned as a result of ineffective assistance of counsel indicates that the appellate courts are monitoring these cases closely.

Are those realistic problems that can cause extra effort in trying to maintain these convictions?

Our great criminal justice system should be seen as a whole. It should be coherent.

It is troubling that we still apparently have backlogs in analysis of rape kits and other analysis of that kind.

Discipline is a big part of success in these programs.

But I think what I hear you saying is that without placing the public at any real greater risk, maybe marginally, you could put more people under intense supervision and have a net gain for the public interest.

Senator Sessions' point about budget is absolutely accurate.

So the Federal system should be done right, but so if you take money--the problem with States is--one of the problems is that the probation officers in Alabama are paid by the State of Alabama.

Need to be. Could be.

I think perhaps you and I have discussed the need for better statistical information.

I would say to you that Norm Carlson--some of you might remember him, former prison commissioner, and he said there is no area that he knew of in which more people thought they had the one answer to fix it than incarceration and prisons…

I think that is true.

Well, one of the things that happens in the program that I--a couple things happen with grants.

Both Judge Diaz and Judge Wynn were nominated by the President on November 4, 2009.

Wasn't it Willie Sutton--they said, 'Why do you rob banks?' And he said, 'That is where the money is.'

I think you will have bipartisan support.

I would sincerely say that I appreciate what you are doing here today because I think it has potential to help us combat fraud.

I think we can do better. I hope and believe that you can do better.

We have a plan before us to massively increase the Federal involvement in health care.

People do not like that. They do not appreciate their tax money being stolen.