Steve Cohen

When it comes to a woman's choice, he's not concerned to personal freedom. When it comes to somebody being in possession of marijuana, he's not concerned about personal freedom.

It's astonishing to me, Anderson. He says he's the governor, and he's a nice guy, but, you know, you can be a nice guy: you need to act.

We're the volunteer state. We shouldn't volunteer: we should be forced to do this, because when we go out -- even if you don't -- you don't know you have the virus, you're spreading it to other people.

It gives them cover, and I suspect that's why Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi acted today.

The virus doesn't know county lines or city lines.

If he sees the hospitals being overwhelmed, he ought to take action in spite of his concern about, quote unquote, 'personal freedoms', to protect Tennesseans lives.

This is not a time to be concerned about personal freedoms. We're talking about the most serious public health crisis in the history of our earth.

The words above the Speaker's head at the top of this Chamber are from Daniel Webster. He says: `` . . . see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.'' Today, we have something worthy…

Well, is the problem--so you're saying the problem is in the standards that they use, it's not in the inability to accurately assess people based on their personal or similarly related characteristics?

In light of all the news around Clearview AI and its secretive facial recognition system, I wanted to discuss NIST's important work in accuracy benchmarking for facial recognition technology through its Face Recognition Vendor Test program.

The human toll of excessive sentencing.

Clemency 2014 invited clemency petitions from Federal prisoners who had served substantial sentences for low-level nonviolent crimes.

I noted that under the Obama administration, over 36,000 clemency and pardon petitions were submitted.

I appreciate your history and your testimony, but you were 5 minutes over.

I would remind the witnesses and the committee that this hearing is entitled, and is, Presidential Clemency and Opportunities for Reform.

Yet, thousands of petitions for clemency remain pending with the Department of Justice's Office of Pardon Attorney.

Presidential clemency should be a routine part of the Federal criminal justice system.

I would submit the history of the last few months shows that Madison was wrong, and that any such President would not necessarily immediately be impeached.

I hope you were here when I let you know that I have criticized President Obama, too, for what I thought was a late process and not issuing enough commutations.

The prison system is extremely expensive, and taxpayers are paying for this lack of action.

Clemency should be expanded to become a routine part of the criminal justice system.

Justice is supposed to be blind.

Even when President Trump grants clemency in a deserving case, he does so seemingly for the wrong reasons, and through the wrong means.

With President Trump, I am afraid that we have received a new low when it comes to the clemency power...

Perhaps not coincidentally, these burdens are disproportionately borne by people of color.