Political Quotes

“This legislation was not born of a whim or out of reason of trying to fill a day of litigation where other things could not have been accomplished. This came about as a result of a Federal judge who was shocked by the fact that on certain cases involving sex offenders that the Federal judge was unable to put onto the offenders' sentence a supervised release for more than 5 years, in some cases for no more than 1 year. So in discussions I had with the Federal judge, he proposed and I accepted the proposition that, because a sex offender in front of a judge is subject to the scrutiny of the entire background of this offender to the extent of previous offenses, ages and names of people who were harmed, the whole aspect of the offender who happens to be in front of judge, coupled with the felony fact that recidivism among sex offenders, particularly those who would harm young children, the pedophiles, that that rate of recidivism is so high that we cannot as a society gamble that after a short period of supervision that this individual will not harm another youngster, and so we are here at the well of the House proposing that we allow these Federal judges in front of whom these sex offenders will appear to a lifetime maximum of supervision.”