Dana Rohrabacher: “Today I rise to draw the attention of my colleagues and, yes, the American people to a legislative threat to the safety…”

“Today I rise to draw the attention of my colleagues and, yes, the American people to a legislative threat to the safety and well-being of the American people. We dodged a bullet in the last session of Congress about this very same issue that I will be discussing this evening. But today, again, we are in serious jeopardy of having an important right of the American people neutered from them, taken away from them by a power play here in Washington, D.C., being conducted by multinational corporations who have done everything they can to impact on this system while the American people do not know that there is an attempted move against their constitutional rights. Alerted by an aggressive yet an unsuccessful attempt to stop this rigorous and rancorous legislation in the House, the Senate was inundated last year about a similar bill that was supposed to be reform, and it was very similar to the one that I will be discussing today. {time} 1815 There was so much opposition to that bill in the Senate that they simply refused to bring it up to the floor for consideration. The bill had already passed the House; and as I say, today, a similar bill now is making its way through the House and will be on the floor, and it is a great threat to the freedom, security, and well-being of the American people. What was that issue that was rammed through the House and once it was exposed that the Senate turned it back?…”