On the recordMay 5, 1999
Mr. Chairman, for years we have labored here, watching bills come and bills go, markups come and markups go, legislation pass through the floor. For all those years what I have looked to is for the Congress to act in such a way as to exercise the legislative discipline in the way the law is written, to write in an acceptable objective standard so that anybody that comes under the jurisdiction of the law will know in fact the rules of the game when they enter the courtroom. For too many years, what we have done is we have written law in this body to leave things at a subjective level and to the discretion of the court, that for too many times and too many pieces of legislation have resulted in excessively drawn out cases under the law where in fact the law was written on an ad hoc basis, in the courtroom, by the court. Many of us who believe so much in judicial constructionism have bemoaned that liberalism in the courts.
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