Jim Sensenbrenner

I have a limited amount of time. If I have time left, I will be happy to yield. This year, so as not to disadvantage themselves, none--that means none--of the Republican primary candidates have signed up for Presidential Election Campaign…

Are you going to drop the boom on the states that refuse to comply or can't comply as of January 15th, 2013?

But your REAL ID rules review in your shop only consists of three professional staff members and one administrative support person.

The longer this Administration and the governors that don't want to do this delay this, the more risk the American public has on a terrorist that wants to commit a major act of terrorism.

I am not for a national ID card. But the longer this goes on, if there is a major terrorist attack because REAL ID has not been implemented for whatever reason, there will be a huge push here for a national ID card.

Madam Secretary, it is no secret that you don't like the REAL ID Act and you have given numerous statements and speeches that you would like to see the REAL ID Act repealed and in its place put something called PASS ID on the books.

I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for yielding me this time. I have listened very carefully to the arguments that have been advanced by the speakers on the other side--my friend and neighbor, the gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms…

the President has, in effect, suspended operation of those laws with regard to a very large identifiable class of offenders.

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

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.

The whole business of the sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum of sentences has been extremely frustrating to Members of the Committee on both sides of the aisle.

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

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

It is Congress' job to create immigration policy and it is the President's job to enforce it.

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

We will look at them.

I reject that emphatically.

This is a clear abuse of discretion.

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?

It is our job to look at how these laws operate and make changes as we see necessary.

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

this Administration has basically stated that, henceforth, deportation efforts would be focused solely on aliens with nonimmigration-related criminal records.

I would say they destroyed the guidelines.

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

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