We've got to find a way to do something to make people feel safe and secure if they do step forward and provide information.

They could use the testimony at the preliminary hearing.

Would he be regarded as a snitch?

When you call for a national commission, Senator Webb and I have introduced the Webb-Specter bill calling for such a commission.

We're going to take a look, before we're finished on these hearings, at the Federal Witness/Victim Protection program.

Do you think it would be appropriate to have Federal legislation which would make it a Federal crime to intimidate a State court witness?

There have to be consequences and the consequences have to be significant in order for people to get the message.

If law enforcement breaks down because of some misguided notion about being a snitch, it's something we have to deal with.

Well, thank you for providing that testimony, Mrs. Clowden.

Well, if you don't have the motivation to get a lesser sentence, you would not be a snitch?

Another course is to have Federal legislation which would make it a Federal crime to intimidate a State court witness.

The response may be, very directly, to instruct children in school that there's a duty to cooperate with law enforcement.

Did the boy who tried to burn down the house want Eric to participate with him in selling drugs?

I think it is urgent, and I am glad to have your concurrence, and see if we cannot break the logjam and move ahead.

It seems to me on the merits and as a matter of equity, where there is a substitution of investment--

Well, if it has done it in numerous cases, that does not absolve it from judicial lawmaking.

Isn't what the Supreme Court has done here in the face of contravening that express legislation engaging in, as Professor Burbank says, 'judicial lawmaking'?

It is infrequent that we have such a blatant case of judicial lawmaking.

this decision is a decision I found particularly disheartening, objectionable

There is one thing that there is unanimity on around here. It is hard to find something, but on judicial lawmaking, I think everybody agrees it ought not to be done.

I do not know how the decision got out, but our Governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, and Senator Arlen Specter had me on the phone within hours.

I am committed not to vote for one which adds to the deficit.

the decision to make these trials in Article III courts is quite a testimonial to our criminal justice system

I would like you to undertake a personal review of the adequacy of their funding on rehabilitation.

I have long believed that the problem of violent crime in America can be substantially ameliorated--it is never going to be solved--by doing two things: one, life sentences for career criminals; and, secondly, realistic rehabilitation for…