informed the court s discretion. legislature passed the guidelines in a legitimate attempt to try to even out sentences, they defined certain presumptive sentences for typical crimes. they did not remove discretion for sentencing judges. they recognized that no better is better suited to decide whether this is the typical case represent bided by that guideli sn sentence or if there s reasons why this is worse than that. the guideline still gives this court discretion when there are aggravatiing factors to give a more serious sentence than what the guidelines presumption calls for. as you know, we are asking you to do that today.
0 want to i ve spoken to debbie w wasserman schultz, and i promise you the administration, the congress are doing everything to be of assistance now and after this occurs. after they decide exactly what the state of play is. but i m glad to welcome everyone here to the adjunct to the white house here, in-person and virtually. survivors and family members, victims and the path breaking leaders like senator baldwin, just over five years ago, the pulse nightclub, a place of acceptance and joy, became a place of unspeakable pain and loss. and we ll never fully recover, but we ll remember, and we have to what we re going to do is with the members of congress here did, enshrine in law, as a consequence of that law, enshrine in perpetuity a literal monument to the loss that occurred there and an absolute determination that we re going to deal with this every single solitary day, and make sure that we re not in a position to see this happen again. behind me, you see on either board there t