Jim Sensenbrenner

Please keep on doing it, and you will be back.

Finally, relative to the Office of Violence Against Women, I have always been a big supporter of the competitive grant program.

Have you looked into this, and have you any recommendations on whether we should raise the bar a little bit or raise the bar so high that they can not get any more government grants or have a moratorium, some kind of penalty for people who…

I am very concerned about the change in policy by the Justice Department relative to public safety officers' benefits programs.

I have a bill that this Committee has reported favorably out to require the National Academies of Science to conduct an unbiased assessment of the science surrounding E-15.

Mercy at the very least.

Most Southern Baptists, and certainly myself, believe that we need to make sure the border is secure before citizenship is possible.

We believe it is a good step forward but it needs some repair and needs some work.

The Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of Wisconsin, and Chairman, Over-Criminalization Task Force of 2013.

I would like to thank both of the witnesses for their very useful testimony.

The gentleman's time has expired. The votes have been moved up to 10:15.

As I stated at the beginning of our first hearing, concern for this issue is bipartisan, and requires bipartisan perspectives.

We should all work together to update the Voting Rights Act and to ensure that voting is free, fair, and accessible for all Americans.

I think it is absolutely critical that we make sure that the rights of those to register and vote in the United States, regardless of race or gender or national origin or other protected areas, be preserved, and that we encourage all…

I have been the author of the PATRIOT Act and the PATRIOT Act reauthorization of 2006.

I deeply appreciate the comments that Mr. Lewis has made because he is truly a civil rights icon.

things have gone off in a different direction from that day.

I was proud to have served as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when the Voting Rights Act was last reauthorized.

Part of that letter said that, in effect, that all of the phone calls, meaning the telephony metadata, had to be collected pursuant to the court order...

But they don't determine which specific phone calls are relevant pursuant to the statute. You do that.

You are having it both ways.

I am not a civil rights icon. I try to be a mechanic to put together legislation that will work.

We are not going to take that kind of 'no' for an answer.

Nobody should be convicted of a crime that doesn't have the intent to do something that the law forbids.

I think this confirms the point that all of us have been making on this issue and demonstrates the breadth of over-criminalization.