Your excellent U.S. Attorney in Vermont, Tris Coffin, has worked with the local and State.

It's important to our system in the United States that the powerful don't pay a fine while the ordinary person goes to prison.

We actually did this in a thing called The Place, in Burlington, Vermont, for 7 or 8 years, back in the late '60s and early '70s.

Madam Chair, I appreciate what you've said and what Senator Shaheen said earlier about what I've been doing up in Vermont.

I am concerned about the large and expanding docket of our Nation's immigration court system.

I was encouraged the Department of Justice requested a $17 million to support an additional 35 Immigration Judge teams.

Is this a priority? Because I really worry that we're going to reach such a tipping point that justice will just be totally denied.

the Nation's immigration courts are understaffed--you've got 32 vacancies, nearly half of the 200 immigration judges eligible for retirement, pending caseload has grown by 50 percent.

Mr. President, last week, I called on members of the Senate to come together and support reauthorization of the Justice for All Act, a bipartisan law that increased resources devoted to DNA and other forensic technology, established…

I don't think it is as active as would be possible.

I hope there will be an understanding that sometimes these cuts are pennywise and pound foolish.

What steps will the Department take to ensure that rural communities are not put at a disadvantage when applying for grants?