I think the nation is frustrated that it doesnt on his job. Can you bring ted cruz on whatever strategy you have, not to include obamacare, can you board . Cruz on as we let folks know, certainly on the house side, that everyone in the house of representatives will be able to input into the budget. Every individual help an opportunity to talk with their colleagues about the solutions that we bring forward. Process, andme to open process, delivered in process, ambitious process, that will allow individuals to say yeah, i know it can be everything i wanted to be, but i had an opportunity to affect the outcome and therefore i supported. Georgia congressman tom price, our guest on newsmakers. On cspan. Iowa senator tom harkin is retiring at the end of this term. Harkin has served five terms in the senate. Republican ll he joined in for a conversation about iowa politics. This is about 20 minutes. Renewable energy, and the environment, and probably lots of others, but those are things that
We have to get this hearing in before the votes start between 11 3012 00. I think the time for Opening Statements will burn up the time between now and 10 30 so week get the the witnesses. I would like to welcome you to the Judiciary Committee meeting. We are talking about the lack of rules that plays on the issue. Over the past career year the task force has evaluated this subject. Despite the fact it is generally accepted that the federal government doesnt poses a General Police power, recent studies included that the number of federal criminal offenses on the books has grown from less than 20 to nearly 5,000 today which cover many types of conduct tended by the framers to be left to the state. The Congress Passes 500 new crimes every decade and this surge is highlighted by a telling statistics. Nearly 50 of the federal criminal provisions enacted since the civil war have been enacted since the 1970s. It leads to a number of concerns. Issues of notice and fairness to the practitioner
To list all the concerns raised by this proposal, you know that i believe there are many. The issues are complex, and the impacts are far reaching. While i appreciate the 120day Comment Period that was granted for Public Comment on this rule, the challenge presented to the states and other stakeholders to analyze and assess the enormous range of issues that are posed is beyond expectations. The level of complexity of the proposal, the volume of technical documents that are released, the amount of coordination required and the magnitude of Energy Impacts of the rule, i believe, warrant a 60day extension of that public Comment Period. I hope to visit with you about that. Im pleased were spending time today examining some of the concerns raised by the proposal. This is an important discussion. This is an important debate. And i look forward to todays dialogue. Thank you. Thank you, senator fisher. Senator cardon. Thank you, madam chair. First, let me think Administrator Gina Mccarthy for
Our full yushry committee and the house of representatives in terms of these ten hearings that weve had this year and last year . I mean, what can we take . And i want to commend the chairman and Ranking Member sensenbrenner and scott for having put this together as they have. But where do we go from here . I think the immediate thing is reform of the mens rea problem. The immediate bandaid that is necessary is a defall rule of mens rea where with none appear in criminal statutes and are a rule of construction that applies a mens rea at least to all material elements. A single mens rea standard or. No, a uniform mens rea standards. Okay. Clearly defined across the board. Uhhuh. And what would you add, dr. Baker . Well, i would agree with that. Ive been involved a little bit in trying to draft that statute. I can tell you its not an easy statute to draft because of the way, first of all, the federal krips are drafted and how differently they are. I would add to those two things which i
Budget. Now. Have that. t you are telling me the department of Homeland Security should have eight times the number of subcommittees and full committees when we are both with this . The department of Homeland Security is dealing with issues peopleradicalization of coming into the country but maybe some that are already here that our homegrown terrorists, something in effect of what happened in the Boston Marathon bombing. There are so many people up there fighting for jurisdiction. That has to change. Can you talk some about the costs of all of this . . Am excessive oversight wondering if you could rate the quality of the oversight of Homeland Security at this point, a report card. I will look at it by comparison with my experience. The oversight of the Justice Department was quite effective when i was therefore eight teen19 years. 18, 19 years. For ,t was vibrant, strong knowledgeable. You do not see that when it comes to dhs. I was dealing with it when i was Homeland Security adviser