"If you increase the number of juveniles being tried, the crime rate will go up?"
"One of the things you talked about is investing in prevention, early intervention, wrap-around services, and obviously that costs money."
"I guess the final question I have in the few seconds I have left, can you talk about the agency's use of the Federal Prison Industry program?"
"I think that is fair."
"Thank you for calling the hearing."
"Representatives Cohen, Rigell, and Thompson wrote in requesting a hearing, particularly as it pertains to Mo' Money Taxes."
"Mandatory minimum sentences have been studied and have been shown to disrupt normal intelligent sentencing processes, waste the taxpayers' money, do nothing to reduce crime, violate common sense."
"I would hope that in order to get some of these mandatory minimums off the books, the first thing we have to do is stop passing new ones."
"To increase the risk, you have to increase the investigation and prosecution."
"Marissa Alexander's case has been widely reported."
"The point of eliminating a mandatory minimum is it eliminates the requirement that the judge mindlessly impose a simple-minded sentence that makes no sense."
"I am pleased to join you in convening this oversight hearing on our Nation's Drug Enforcement Agency."