Bob Inglis: “I agree exactly with what the gentleman just said, and that is why I am voting for the underlying bill. But the…”

“I agree exactly with what the gentleman just said, and that is why I am voting for the underlying bill. But the gentleman said earlier that this is some kind of voluntary registration. There is nothing voluntary about this. We, in strong action here, are requiring exactly the person he just described to register, and we say to them they must register within the prescribed period. There is no voluntary nature to that. That is a strong and good law. That is what we are doing here. The question is whether we can trust the sentencing guidelines and the Sentencing Commission and Federal judges to come up with a system to figure out whether that person that the gentleman is describing, flagrantly violating it, should go off for 20 years as opposed to the hypothetical that I posed as somebody in confusion about when exactly they moved, let us say, from California to Florida, as to whether that case deserves a mandatory minimum of 5 years. Because what we are doing here, if this amendment fails, is tying the hands of that judge in Ohio such that he must or she must send the person off for 5 years if there was confusion about when and how they moved to the State of Ohio. It may be somebody who did not flagrantly violate. It was just confusion as to when they moved. And if we have sentencing guidelines and judges that follow those guidelines, if they do not, put pressure on them and then impeach them.”