Two hundred and fifty thousand.

Well, we will pursue it, Mr. Preski, as you say, with the individuals who are charged to try to find out where the laxity has been and why it's going to take so long, until May.

The factual situation also, as reported, is that Philadelphia is owed $1 million in bail monies, but they cannot be collected because of the absence of computerized records.

So your point is, you've had insufficient funding to have the personnel to handle these problems?

We want to be helpful to you. You've got a big job and we want to help you carry it out.

Is there a separate offense for jumping bail?

How successful was it?

Would you recommend to a city like Philadelphia that they go back to commercial bail?

Well, I understand the problems that the Clerk of Quarter Sessions has, Ms. Vivian Miller. She's your superior, right?

When I was District Attorney, there was a lot of corruption in the bail system, implicated with a magisterial system where there were shake-downs and people who were under arrest.

It would be, probably, technical if you have a colloquy and you say, if you fail to show up, do you hereby waive your right to a jury trial?

Why should it take until May to start entering these fugitives in the national system?

So with that tremendous number of additional people who have jumped bail around the country, State and local, it seems the Federal Government has it pretty well in control, as described here today.

Isn't the practical effect of not reporting to the national clearinghouse fugitives really knowing the system, gaming the system, remaining at large and really thumbing their nose at the Philadelphia criminal justice system?

Do you think it's too tough to subject grandma to the possible loss of her home?

What happens to the person who has skipped bail? Is there an additional penalty, an additional charge?

the efforts that Senator Biden made to have Federal funding and Federal grants ought to be carried forward.

So the statute does allow for increasing the penalty which is prescribed by statute for an offense?