Craig Washington

So yours is the moderate, watered down habeas corpus reform that gets us beyond where we are now with all the delays?

This is not the Washington-Edwards amendment. My amendment would have done a lot more, a lot more forcefully and a lot more, but the committee decided on your version rather than mine, which is quintessentially, in my judgment, a much…

The question was raised and has not been answered: Why would prosecutors oppose this amendment? It is like any work product. Once you put your work into something, you are duty-bound to defend that work product, are you not?

That is right. When there are good lawyers on the other side, does it not make your job a lot easier? You and I used to try cases against each other. Really when you are trying a good, hard-fought case, do you not want a good lawyer on the…

I was attempting to follow the logic of my dear friend from Florida very carefully about the debate that is going on on this amendment. If I understand him correctly, the kind of criminals that he is talking about are the people that say…

It is a fact that over 80 percent of the death row appeals, and specifically the reversals, are based upon lawyer error, that is, people had incompetent lawyers to try death penalty cases to begin with; right?

the ones that are going to sell their soul are not going to be stopped by this bill.

my concern is this. The very last thing the gentleman said, he said he does not believe that Members of Congress are for sale for a meal or a trip or any of those things. I believe that, too. I honestly do. It troubles me. I have been in…

Mr. Speaker, is there a cost-benefit when you have dirty water and dirty air, and our children cannot live and breathe? I think not. Mr. Speaker, this bill has enough in it already. I think Members who are going to vote for the bill on…

as I ponder the President's possible remarks later this evening on the State of the Union, I thought it was important to discuss some things that address what I believe will be the principal subject of the President's remarks. I am happy…