We will look at them.

It is our job to look at how these laws operate and make changes as we see necessary.

A criminal committing a Federal crime should receive similar punishment regardless of whether the crime was committed in Richmond, Virginia, or Richmond, California.

I would say they destroyed the guidelines.

The attack on judicial discretion suggests that Congress or the Commission... are in a better position to determine a fair sentence than judges.

Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act in 1984, reflecting Congress's original intent for fair and equal justice throughout the federal judiciary.

The whole business of the sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum of sentences has been extremely frustrating to Members of the Committee on both sides of the aisle.

I reject that emphatically.

Nothing that I have seen to date demonstrates a need to curtail the limited judicial discretion that Booker restored.

A criminal committing a federal crime should receive a similar punishment regardless of whether the crime was committed in Richmond, Virginia or Richmond, California.

I am deeply concerned about what is happening to Federal sentencing.

I think that there is a lack of appreciation on the Federal judiciary and a lot of the Bar that Congress' oversight responsibility extends to the judicial branch of government as well as to the executive branch of government.

Has the Commission made any analysis of the statements that the law requires the sentencing judge to make when there is either an upward or downward departure?

What the President is doing is unfair to the 26 million American workers who are unemployed or underemployed.

This is a clear abuse of discretion.

It is Congress' job to create immigration policy and it is the President's job to enforce it.

this Administration has basically stated that, henceforth, deportation efforts would be focused solely on aliens with nonimmigration-related criminal records.

the President has, in effect, suspended operation of those laws with regard to a very large identifiable class of offenders.