Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"This is going to create good-paying jobs for people living in his home State of Iowa and my home State of Illinois."

"In fact, the cost of incarcerating an individual is now in excess of what it costs to send a young person to college in many universities across the country."

"Without empirical data demonstrating that there is a widespread problem that must be addressed through the rules, we stand at the precipice of changing the rules in a way that we know will have a part..."

"The lack of empirical data really concerns me because any of us who have practiced law have war stories and anecdotes and, you know, they can be used so misleadingly for changes or to resist change."