All those people in there. Not saying ceasefire. Host raymond, youre muffled at times. Its difficult to hear you. Richard in srer roana, missouri, democratic caller. Caller yeah. Calling about the students. Doing for the arabs on the reauthorization of the federal Aviation Administration with the renewal deadline friday. Castronova house pass one week extension to allow the senate more time to come to an agreement on sunday. The senate could take up the shortterm extension today. Covid on cspan2. The senate will come to order. Let us pray. Gracious lord, ruler of our lives, help us today to trust you with all of our hearts, minds, and strength. Lord, keep us striving to stay within the circle of your will. Today, empower the members of this body to bring deliverance to captives, sight to the morally blind, and healing to those who are bruised by lifes trials and setbacks. Give our lawmakers the wisdom to follow your providential leading even when facing problems that seem too difficult
Thats our job, is to take votes, to try to make legislation better and to offer improvements to it, and that means amendments. Look, i understand in the house of representatives things operate a little bit differently. Youve got 435 people over tlchlt its a lot harder to have that. This is why weve always bragged about our status as the worlds greatest deliberative legislative body. On paper we are. Historically we certainly have been. Today we are not. Were kidding ourselves, were delusional if we want and expect the American People to believe otherwise. Heres the food news the good news, we still are that entity on paper, as it is envisioned, as its created, as its established and outlined by the constitution. We still are that entity, with our own rules, our own precedence, and our own customs. But alas, the best rules, the best constitutional provisions will amount to dead letter if we ourselves refuse to exercise our own rights and our prerogatives. The muscle of legislative proce
I use experience you know, i have no idea whatsoever. And pozner suggested, i think i picked that up go and do empirical research. Why doesnt the government do it . Commissions tried to do it. Doesnt know where to begin. There are so many statutes. I think, Justice Breyer the very difficulty and unmanageability of the enterprise suggests it is not what congress had in mind. What congress had in mind was identifying classes of offenses that judges are confident involve serious potential risks of physical injury to another possibly the similarity in kind inquiry when the mens rea isnt satisfied. What Congress Expected courts to do was to analyze what the conduct is that is involved in it, compare it to the listed offenses and see if the risks are similar. Does the department of justice does the department of justice do any of that . Is one that the prosecutor asks for, and is there any guidance coming from the department of justice, guidance to the u. S. Attorneys, who are going to be as