03/01/2011
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"I express my deepest gratitude to you and those who serve under your command."
"The legislation that I have cosponsored with Senator Durbin, the Smarter Sentencing Act, S. 1410, would decrease mandatory minimum sentences for certain categories of drug offenders."
"As I have expressed many times on previous occasions, in my view the Federal Government has been for decades enacting and subsequently enforcing far too much substantive criminal law."
"I think we have to look very closely at our current scheme of mandatory minimum sentences as a result."