John Shadegg: “Wait, the gentleman's telling me that never before in Federal law have we ordered people to buy a particular product…”

An elaborate charade. Trickery. If the American people think we are engaged in trickery, why not engage in trickery.

So the reason you wouldn't want to stand on the floor and vote for that Senate bill is not just because of the policy in it, it is because that bill will contain the Cornhusker Kickback, right?

So this would be the first Federal mandate saying you must buy a product because the Federal Government tells you you must buy a product?

I have spent a great deal of my life advocating for the victims of crime. It seems to me this is an outrage that exists in current law. The victims of crime should not be revictimized. In this case, American law does revictimize those…