I thank the gentleman for yielding. Once again, this amendment does nothing more than to delay or gut the bill. It is correct what the gentlelady from Connecticut says in that this amendment does not impact the construction at all--and it does not. Yet, as the gentleman from California pointed out, the analogy here is, if you build a house, this amendment would say you can't live in the house, that you can't operate in the house. Again, this amendment does nothing more than gut the bill. It's a delay tactic. As I said earlier, this bill allows Congress the ability to regain its constitutional authority. Congress has the express authority under article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution ``to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States.'' So this bill does that. I urge all of my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this amendment and ``yes'' on the underlying bill.
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