Dianne Feinstein: “I join the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Leahy, and my colleagues in urging the majority to appoint…”

“I join the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Leahy, and my colleagues in urging the majority to appoint conferees and proceed to conference on the juvenile crime bill. It has now been one month and four days since the Senate passed the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act of 1999, by an overwhelming margin of 73-25. It has been nearly two weeks since the House of Representatives passed its counterpart bill. And yet, since that time, there has been no progress at all toward going to conference on these two bills. In fact, it appears that there are some on the other side of the aisle who deliberately want to forestall or even de-rail the conference that is necessary to pass this vitally-needed legislation.”