Thank you for calling the hearing.

I think he also says Chief Justice Roberts and Alito, as I recall, and so, you know, I will -- you know, I disagree with Justice Roberts' decision today. I obviously agree with the dissent.

That's why we need a President Mitt Romney.

No, not at all, because he was talking about a state policy. And this is a national policy where we're imposing from the top down on every single state.

This will hit our small businesses. Our high tech companies. That really need to get out from under this type of huge tax that's going to be hitting our small businesses and our families.

I think that is fair.

Representatives Cohen, Rigell, and Thompson wrote in requesting a hearing, particularly as it pertains to Mo' Money Taxes.

Marissa Alexander's case has been widely reported.

Mandatory minimum sentences have been studied and have been shown to disrupt normal intelligent sentencing processes, waste the taxpayers' money, do nothing to reduce crime, violate common sense.

To increase the risk, you have to increase the investigation and prosecution.

I would hope that in order to get some of these mandatory minimums off the books, the first thing we have to do is stop passing new ones.

The point of eliminating a mandatory minimum is it eliminates the requirement that the judge mindlessly impose a simple-minded sentence that makes no sense.

I'm all for an honest intellectual pursuit of the issue of unfunded mandates or burdensome mandates.

I don't think it's an intellectually honest pursuit.

I still don't like the hearing, and I am entitled to not like the hearing.

If there was one thing that we could do immediately to improve this global situation, what would it be?

Yet during that visit, one could clearly see the promise of a different future.

I would say this is one of those moments we will look back on clearly as a historic turning point.