Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. McCaffrey, for voluntarily taking the time to review the bill for our benefit. It's been very helpful and it will be very helpful for the clause-by-clause.
I am mostly going to let you just continue talking, because you've obviously done a lot of useful review, and the time is painfully short for witnesses in this committee. But I would like to ask you one specific question.
It's my understanding in environmental law , over the history of prosecutions, that the most valuable factor in sentencing and, in fact, the most useful powers of the court have not been the fines imposed but the innovative sentencing provisions. I'm just wondering what your comment might be. The focus of these amendments seems to be on imposing higher and higher minimum penalties, when in the courts the experience has been that for the most part, the prosecutors seek innovative sentencing.