"On the broader issue of guns going down to Mexico from the United States..."
"I appreciate your work and your testimony."
"I would urge the DOJ to strongly consider doing away with the necessity of this second technical review."
"The quicker those samples can be uploaded into CODIS the quicker we can take some dangerous people off the street."
"As long as you did not preclude them from doing that?"
"A recent Pew study shows that one in thirty-one adults is currently under correctional control, up from one in seventy-seven back in 1982."
"Despite these increasing corrections expenditures recidivism rates remain very high."
"They have a lot of donors who will not give to them because of the restrictions."
"I do not consider it a cheap shot to say that there is inconsistency with people who advocate for states' rights when it is convenient and do not when it is not convenient."
"State spending on corrections accounts for over $10 billion annually, almost 10 percent of the general fund, greater than average for the nation."
"I would love to see us at the federal level do what we did in California, which I would love to see us do a joint reauthorization of OJJDP as well as COPS, and try to provide equivalent funding in bot..."