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Different colors. All woven and held together by a single precious thread of democracy. Paul has taught us so much and as students who followed him, worked with him, believed with him, loved him and now miss him, we could never, ever be more thankful. With that, mr. Trone and mr. Speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Trone i recognize mr. Levin. Mr. Levin thank you very much for recognizing me, mr. Trone and i thank the majority leader for organizing this. Mr. Speaker, i rise to speak for mr. Sarbanes, senator sarbanes employees. And especially for my sisterinlaw milley freeman, who worked for Paul Sarbanes from december of 1989 to january of 2007. And im not going to talk about all the Amazing Things about senator sarbanes that his maryland colleagues have eloquently mentioned and john, im not going to talk about fathers and sons, but my dad who served in this hou ....
Deal but one chair and can and did hold up the cyber bill until just recently. They did a program governor thompson referred to because they also have a referral and stopped the legislation from moving to the floor. I think it is counterproductive and dysfunctional and quite honestly that hurts the American People because we cant pass legislation that can protect them and in addition the oversight issue with 100 committees and subcommittees how can the secretary j. Johnson who had a Great Respect and admiration how can he do his job when hes constantly preparing for testimony and he has a very important job and the whole legislative shock us to do that. You look at the judiciary and it has the department of justice. They have the entire department of defense. Why doesnt the committee on Homeland Security have jurisdic ....
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 differ ....
Four legislative days remain in the 2024 regular session with high-profile bills — involving gambling, ethics reform and taxes — still awaiting final action this week or next. ....