Richard Shelby actually said...

"And if there's any change in the laws on sentencing, it came from Congress--it had come from Congress to modify, repeal, or enact something to supersede it, is that correct?"

"Do you believe it's the--when you make priorities, as a prosecutor, that you should look at violent crime and get people off the street, get them out of doing harm to other people in institutions firs..."

"Do you believe that a lot of our prisons are overcrowded, State and Federal?"

"About a third, more or less----"