Welcome and Opening Remarks by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX)  Rep. Danny Davis (IL) Rep. Charles Rangel (NY)  Welcome and Introduction of Attorney General by Rep. John Conyers (MI)  Remarks by Eric Holder, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice  Introduction of Justice Breyer Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Executive Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, Harvard Law School  Hon. Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Supreme Court of the United States  Kate Stith, Acting Dean Yale Law School  Mandatory Minimums  Panel One: Rep Maxine Waters (CA) History of Mandatory Minimums  Nancy Gertner, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts Hon. J. Spencer Letts, Judge, U.S. District Court, Central District of California Eric Sterling, President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation  Panel Two: Rep. Bobby Scott (VA) The Need for Repeal, Including Legislative Update  A.J. Kramer, Federal Defender, Federal Public Defender of the District of Columbia Julie Stewart, President, Families Against Mandatory Minimums Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project Margaret Love, Former Pardon Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice  Disparity Between Crack and Powder Cocaine  Panel Three: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX)  Hon. Reggie B. Walton, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Hon. William Sessions, Vice Chairman, U.S. Sentencing Commission Bruce Nicholson, Legislative Counsel, American Bar Association David Kirby, Former United States Attorney for the District of Vermont  Good Time, Community Corrections and Reentry   Panel Four: Rep. Danny K. Davis (IL) Hon. Ann Aiken, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court of the District of Oregon Loretta S. Martin, Chief Probation Officer for the Central District of California Harley G. Lappin, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons            Jane Browning, Executive Director, International Community Corrections Association Kristen Mamer, Director Public Affairs, FedCure Isaac Fulwood, Jr., Chairman, U.S. Parole Commission (Invited) Â
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