"I believe the laws currently in place are good and that we need to be careful not to over legislate and put controls on importing homeless animals," she said.
Smith is simply another stooge in the Blairite criminal justice tradition, which has obsessed over legislating against problems that have causes that legislation cannot resolve.
He could also put the states back in their box by setting a more ambitious federal renewable energy target, legislated over a longer time horizon, to give certainty to investors, who are again fretting about having to endure another toxic cycle of finger pointing about climate change.
What I will take away from Oldstone-Moore's book is an argument not stated outright in the text but nevertheless contained within it: that beards are something people like to chatter about and legislate over as a sort of displacement activity when they find it too awkward or confusing to address the issues that actually matter.
In 2003 this was taken a step further when the European Aviation Safety Agency EASAA) was established as the central EU regulator, taking over responsibility for legislating airworthiness and environmental regulation from the national authorities.
"Let's let legislators legislate again," Boehner said, summarizing a year's worth of complaints over the Democrats' use of procedural maneuvers like the so-called "Demon Pass".
The book's bottom line is that even though this number has been legislated downward over the last century, it still fails to capture many problematic drivers.
So in order to help them, Congress over the years has legislated to allow American companies to put off paying taxes on overseas profits until these are actually brought home.
Over the next 300 years, it also legislated against "barking dogs," "singing at Christmas and New Year's parties," "carpet-beating" and "noisy children".
When the main debate got under way, Mrs May said she understood concerns over the warrant but said she had legislated to make it "better and safer".
