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Clemency should be expanded to become a routine part of the criminal justice system.
3/4/2020
The pursuit of law and order, the encouragement of redemption are not mutually exclusive pursuits. These are quintessent...
3/4/2020
Not far from here, almost 57 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke movingly to remind America of the fierce urgency of...
3/4/2020
I hope you were here when I let you know that I have criticized President Obama, too, for what I thought was a late proc...
3/4/2020
We hold this hearing today to remind America that today there are few things more fiercely urgent than the need to grant...
3/4/2020
I appreciate your history and your testimony, but you were 5 minutes over.
3/4/2020
With President Trump, I am afraid that we have received a new low when it comes to the clemency power...
3/4/2020
Perhaps not coincidentally, these burdens are disproportionately borne by people of color.
3/4/2020
The human toll of excessive sentencing.
3/4/2020
Clemency 2014 invited clemency petitions from Federal prisoners who had served substantial sentences for low-level nonvi...
3/4/2020
I noted that under the Obama administration, over 36,000 clemency and pardon petitions were submitted.
3/4/2020
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Steve Ira Cohen
in office

usa, Tennessee

1,877 Quotes

Born5/24/1949 (age 76)

PartyDemocratic

  • U.S. House of Representatives

    1/4/2007 - present
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