Pete Sessions: “My question is this: What your legislation would do is provide a mechanism to guarantee a periodic review of a consent…”

“My question is this: What your legislation would do is provide a mechanism to guarantee a periodic review of a consent decree so it would not continue indefinitely. There are many in this country that are well over 20 years in which judges are intimately involved in details of governing and the local people have to seek approval for any of the most minute changes. This would not eliminate consent decrees. It would not eliminate their enforcement, but it creates a mechanism by which they are periodically reviewed so as to determine whether they should be extended.”