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Congress made a decision about retroactive reductions in drug penalties so i'm not sure what -- >> but judge in both cases we hear the argument from members of congress or the sentencing commission we shouldn't worry, there is individualized case by case determinations. >> and that is my experience. that's -- when there is a retroactive change, what happens is that whether it's the guidelines that are changed or the laws that are changed, which happens in congress there is a sure kwenlt determination whether or not to apply that reto actively, apply the change so those convicted of that person...

0 recommendations, whether they're in congress, they're not the kinds of things that i can opine about. >> so you don't want to opine whether 17 years is too long or too short a sentence for murder? >> senator cotton, the congress has prescribed a number of factors that judges look at when they sentence. it may in many cases not be. i can't answer in the abstract in the way that you -- >> these are very concrete. let's turn to rape. do you know how long the average inmate convicted of rape serves in prison in america? >> well, senator rape is not a crime in the federal system that i'm familiar...