Mr. Schumer. Without objection, Mr. Schiff is recognized for as much time as he wishes. Mr. Schiff. First of all, I want to thank you for that compliment to me, and I would like to respectfully return the compliment. In all the time that I have served with you on this subcommittee, you have been very open to suggestions that I have made and ideas and proposals, including at various hearings allowing extra time for questioning when that was appropriate. And so I think I have been treated very fairly. I have to say that for the last 2 months, I think the delays in having this hearing were entirely unavoidable and I think just groups of circumstances arose from one source or other that pre vented this hearing from occurring before the August recess. And certainly, I think, that that was no fault at all. I do, however, have to say that I am very disappointed that it took from my request in November 1993, 8 months to July 1994, to secure your agreement to hold this hearing. I realize you said that we would hold the hearing after the crime bill was completed, but I think that there was no reason to wait until after the crime bill was completed. No other issue waited until the crime bill was completed. We had hearings on every other aspect of criminal law and criminal justice virtually at the drop of a hat. I think there is no reason why this waited 8 months. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.