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"This very point was brought up, that incarceration is not making us safer."

Idaho Senator Patti Anne Lodge (R) on a criminal justice session she attended at NCSL's Legislative Summit in Los Angeles in August, in The Spokesman Review.

"I'm for folks being good stewards of the environment, but that doesn't mean the government has to tell you how to do everything... To make that argument to someone in San Bernardino trying to enjoy a chocolate malt--that's very hard to do without a straw."

California Assemblyman Matthew Harper (R) on the state's ban on plastic straws, from Pew's Stateline,

"If the Legislature fails to act, avoidable fires will continue to happen."

California Senator Bill Dodd (D) on what he says is the Legislature's slow response to the state's wildfires, in the Los Angeles Times.

"We can't even begin to appreciate all the opportunities that it will unfold for our citizens, for economic development and for frontier communities."

New Mexico Senator Jeff Steinborn on the development of the Rio Grande Trail, in the El Paso Times.

"What a horrible feeling [to] know nothing about your history, nothing about your past."

Indiana Senator Michael Young (R) on a new law giving adopted people access to their family medical histories and other vital information, on Northeast Indiana Public Radio.

"What we really want to do with these reforms is reserve our prison space for people who are a danger to public safety."

North Dakota Representative Karla Rose Hanson on a package of "justice reinvestment" reforms lawmakers passed last year, in the Grand Forks Herald.

MISSOURI GOVERNOR MIKE PARSON (R) APPOINTED SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MIKE KEHOE (R) TO BE HIS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Kehoe was elected to the state Senate in 2010 and selected majority leader in 2015. Parson said he chose Kehoe because he wanted someone who possessed certain attributes: "leadership, humility, meaningful experience, a willingness to listen to your adversaries and the heart of a public servant."

"For me, the social justice piece of it is much larger than, I think, the taxing and regulating--although that is important."

New York Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes (D) on her bill to legalize marijuana and help communities targeted in the war on drugs, from Pew's Stateline.

"Most important, we are not going to allow adults to...

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