"I have just got to close by saying I went to Peoria, Illinois, which is a basic Midwestern mid-sized city where they are dealing with crime by calling in all of those on probation and parole for face-to-face meetings and to say, 'We know you are out there. And we are not only telling you we are watc..."
"Is sequestration increasing the gap in resource parity to a point that calls into question whether indigent defendants are getting full due process?"
"the notion that that office is facing potentially laying off a third of its staff is unconscionable"
"justice delayed and justice denied, as I see it, in terms of trying to sync up the investment in prosecution resources while we diminish the investment in defender resources."
"We have heard the Speaker and the Majority Leader and a wide array of Republican voices say they are for legalizing the status of children under certain circumstances."
"The standard that they released yesterday, which they are now going to use, is actually stricter than the standard that I have been proposing."
"Sequestration, the way it has been characterized, the way it has been implemented, is a pervasive problem."
"I have offered an amendment over the years to try to limit the metadata collection in terms of specific suspicion."
"While we support the intention of this bill, which seeks to address the same issue as S. 257, we cannot support this legislation."
"We thank Senator Durbin for his attention to this issue."
"We thank Senator Durbin for taking this issue seriously and introducing legislation in an effort to ensure more equitable reimbursement for student-veterans attending public schools."