I really want to personally thank Senator Wyden, once again, for his help on this effort.
Senator Wyden and I have done our best to create both a product, and a process on this legislation, that is bipartisan.
It is not enough to simply end equitable sharing. Congress needs to reclaim its control and oversight over this unaccountable funding stream...
And we know in the Senate if we do not get some bipartisan agreement, nothing is going to happen.
Even in the midst of the current reform effort, no bill before Congress would abolish civil asset forfeiture and I would not support one if ...
But as asset forfeiture is currently practiced, nothing is obliging the Government to control itself.
As Madison remarked in Federalist 51, in framing a government which is to be administered by man over man, the great difficulty lies in this...
I won't get the opinion?
I believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool but that we need to use that tool effectively.
The Constitution recognizes us as equal, but I was going to call on you first because you are the senior Member here today.
In other words, the decision has been made that Congress can't have the opinion, and so we won't get the opinion.