we will now herar formrom mr. adachi. >> i am here to express my support for the sentencing commission. there are three things that i think his commission will be capable of. we will be able to take a big picture view of sentencing. my department handles 25,000 cases a year, and on top of that you have cases handled by the private bar and by retaining counsel. we would be able to get a big picture view, for the very first time, of what is happening in a wide variety of cases. secondly, we will be able to look at the consistency or inconsistency of those cases. while sentencing is an individualized past, every cases like a snowflake, every time you have ranges, where certain patterns should exist. we will look it goes to see where the variations are, what the discrepancies are, what the disparities are. we will look at racial disparities, and come, poverty disparities, and see if there is any discernible pattern -- income, poverty disparities, and see if there is any discernible pattern to those. third, because we have li