Mr. Chair, we will not be supporting this amendment for the simple reason that fines awarded by courts martial or a summary trial can go to very high amounts, and they can also be combined with other forms of punishment. To have no limit placed on the fine that would have the effect of expunging criminal records of the traces of service events would be highly inappropriate, and it would serve to make an otherwise good bill that would modernize the military justice system incoherent and unbalanced.
In reply to Mr. Harris's earlier comments about why we're here—