text: luna position,in addition to producing this bizarre patchwork of coverage,conflicts with our ordinary assumption that congress,when drafting a statute,gives each provision independent meaning.see united states butler,these words can not be meaningless,else they would not have been used until its most recent amendment,a j provided that the term aggravated felony included any offense described in relating to racketeer influenced corrupt organizations for which a sentence of years imprisonment or more may be imposed.a j,supp.i.that provision now incorporates two more federal crimes,and uses one year of prison as the threshold.the federal racketeering statute cited has an interstate commerce element analogous state and foreign laws per usual do not,and therefore would fall outside a j on luna reading.but if congress had meant to so exclude those state and foreign counterparts,then a j final clause for which a sentence of years imprisonment may be imposed would have been superfluous,because federal racketeering is always punishable by more than five years imprisonment,see a.that language presence shows that congress thought a j would sweep in some state and foreign laws the final clause served to filter out such statutes when but only when they applied to less serious conduct than the federal racketeering offense.