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Mr. President, I stood before this body in March of this year to protest our country’s unconstitutional intervention in Saudi Arabia’s bloody war in Yemen. I was proud to stand with my colleagues Senator Sanders and Senator Murphy to file a discharge motion of our resolution, S.J. Res 54, that would remove U.S. armed forces from Yemen. At that time, members of the Foreign Relations Committee requested additional time to study the issue and debate the resolution in committee. The chairman of the committee, my colleague Senator Corker, requested this with the commitment to “bring forth legislation to actually appropriately deal with many of the issues relative to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and ourselves.” So the Senate voted to table the motion.

As a former federal prosecutor, I am clear-eyed about crime. Unlike some reformers, I don’t think our justice system is fundamentally broken, unjust, or corrupt. I have nothing but respect for law-enforcement officials, who put themselves in danger every single day in order to protect the public. I know from experience that dangerous criminals exist — individuals who are incapable of or uninterested in rehabilitation and change. We should throw the book at those people.

What: Mobile Office Visit to Huntsville When: Monday, November 19, 2018 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Where: Huntsville Town Hall: 7309 E 200 S, Huntsville, UT 84317

It is not every day that Democrats and Republicans are able to work together in Washington to produce legislation that makes Americans safer, strengthens American families, all while shrinking the federal government. But that is what happened this week when President Trump endorsed the First Step Act, a House passed prison reform bill that, thanks to a bipartisan group of senators, now contains much needed sentencing reforms too.