What the President is doing is unfair to the 26 million American workers who are unemployed or underemployed.

We will look at them.

Has the Commission made any analysis of the statements that the law requires the sentencing judge to make when there is either an upward or downward departure?

I think that there is a lack of appreciation on the Federal judiciary and a lot of the Bar that Congress' oversight responsibility extends to the judicial branch of government as well as to the executive branch of government.

I am deeply concerned about what is happening to Federal sentencing.

A criminal committing a federal crime should receive a similar punishment regardless of whether the crime was committed in Richmond, Virginia or Richmond, California.

Nothing that I have seen to date demonstrates a need to curtail the limited judicial discretion that Booker restored.

I reject that emphatically.

The attack on judicial discretion suggests that Congress or the Commission... are in a better position to determine a fair sentence than judges.

Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act in 1984, reflecting Congress's original intent for fair and equal justice throughout the federal judiciary.

Well, I support that, even though I got a lot of grief for moving Senator Leahy's National Security Letters into the PATRIOT Act.