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An impressive list of accomplishments.

Opening Statement of Attorney General Jeff Sessions Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

justice.gov/opa/speech/ope…

If someone asks you what Jeff Sessions has done, here is a start.

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It is the honor of a lifetime to serve as the Attorney General of the United States and to sit here representing the men and women of the Department of Justice.

You can be sure that I understand the importance of the office I hold and strive to be worthy of it.

Every single day, the 115,000 men and women of the Department of Justice work to protect our national security against terrorist threats, to defend the civil rights of all Americans,

to reduce violent crime in our communities, to stop deadly drug dealers and their organizations, and to strengthen the rule of law.

After two decades of declining crime, in 2015 and 2016, the violent crime rate went up by nearly seven percent; assaults went up nearly 10 percent; rape went up by nearly 11 percent; murder increased by more than 20 percent.

President Trump, our federal officers, and our local law enforcement partners are determined that this crime rise will not continue.

Our prosecutions of illicit drugs, gun violators, violent crime, gangs, opioids, and immigration offenses are going up also.

In 2017, we brought cases against more violent criminals than in any year in decades.

We charged the most federal firearms prosecutions in a decade.

We convicted nearly 500 human traffickers and 1,200 gang members.

Indeed, there are some good signs in the preliminary data that the increases in murder and violent crime appear to have slowed and violent crime may have actually begun to decrease.

We also embrace the President’s goal of reducing prescription drugs sold in the United States by one-third over the next three years. This is an important step in reducing addiction and overdose deaths.

We are simply prescribing too many drugs in this country.

This Department is going after drug companies, doctors, and pharmacists and others that violate the law using civil, criminal, and sound regulatory powers.

I have directed that every US Attorney Office establish an opioid coordinator.

We have already charged hundreds of people suspected of contributing to the ongoing opioid crisis—including over 50 doctors for opioid-related crimes. Sixteen of these doctors prescribed more than 20.3 million pills illegally.

Our Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Forces have also indicted more than 6,500 defendants in opioid-related investigations and forfeited more than $150 million.

With powerful drugs like fentanyl and heroin on our streets, we are experiencing overdose death rates like we have never seen in this country. It must end. We are out of time—we have to see results now.

Amazingly, in the past month alone, the DEA has seized a total of...

more than 90 kilograms of suspected fentanyl in cases from Detroit to New York to Boston. Fentanyl is 50 times as powerful as heroin, and it’s so powerful that an amount equivalent to a pinch of salt is powerful enough to be deadly.

We are streamlining and increasing prosecutions and targeting criminal aliens.

Congress provided enough funding for 100 new immigration judges in the recent omnibus, which will help us keep up with the caseload.

Finally, let me say with all the strength I can muster, that no nation has a finer group of law officers than those who comprise our FBI, DEA, ATF, and USMS.

They are—now and 24 hours a day— in every corner of America, working courageously and faithfully to protect this nation and our people.

When we face criticism, we will not be defensive. When questions arise, even if misplaced, we will take necessary action to establish that the concerns are either not true or take strong action against any wrongdoing.

This Department— above all others— can never get too big for its britches or think itself in anyway as above the law that we must apply to others. We know the government always wins when justice is done.