Peter Welch

I think the First Step Act has been incredibly helpful in acknowledging that there's some folks who really are good to be getting back out on the street.

We still seem in this country, much more than any other countries, to rely on the prison system to be the place where we somehow quote, 'address those issues.'

What people don't realize is--they feel like mental health courts sort of soft-on-crime type of stuff, but it truly is crime fighting.

What people don't realize is--they feel like mental health courts sort of soft-on-crime type of stuff, but it truly is crime fighting.

We still seem in this country, much more than any other countries, to rely on the prison system to be the place where we somehow quote, 'address those issues.'

I think the First Step Act has been incredibly helpful in acknowledging that there's some folks who really are good to be getting back out on the street.

If anyone has aspirations to attack minority communities or indeed to attack the Jewish community here in America, they'd have to go through me first.

If a person who's going to serve as the judge is advocating terrorism, or supports terrorism, or sexual misconduct, then that would be a disqualifier.

Right. And so, you condemn what Hamas did to innocent Israelis on October 7th, and you condemn what terrorists did to New York on 9/11?

If anyone has aspirations to attack minority communities or indeed to attack the Jewish community here in America, they'd have to go through me first.

If a person who's going to serve as the judge is advocating terrorism, or supports terrorism, or sexual misconduct, then that would be a disqualifier.

And you condemn what Hamas did to innocent Israelis on October 7th, and you condemn what terrorists did to New York on 9/11?

If anyone has aspirations to attack minority communities or indeed to attack the Jewish community here in America, they'd have to go through me first.

If a person who's going to serve as the judge is advocating terrorism, or supports terrorism, or sexual misconduct, then that would be a disqualifier.

I happen to be a big believer in them. They save money, but it's more than that.

There's a number of us here led by the Chair, Senator Durbin, who've called for, really, closure of Guantanamo.

I believe that the majority of our individuals who graduate are successful.

I happen to be a big believer in them. They save money, but it's more than that.

It's been, you know, it's millions of dollars. People are there, 19 of them, without any trial whatsoever.

There's a number of us here led by the Chair, Senator Durbin, who've called for, really, closure of Guantanamo.

I happen to be a big believer in them. They save money, but it's more than that.

There's a number of us here led by the Chair, Senator Durbin, who've called for, really, closure of Guantanamo.

It's millions of dollars. People are there, 19 of them, without any trial whatsoever.

Time is wasting and we have a sketchy situation over there on the other side of the building so we better get to work pretty quickly to get that five-year farm bill passed.

They are trying to do things that regenerate the soil. They are trying to do things that reduce the cost of a lot of these inputs so that their profitability is greater, at the end of the day, obviously what is important.