Dana Rohrabacher: “I appreciate all the great things that the chairman has done. I echo the remarks, the praise that was sung by our…”

“I appreciate all the great things that the chairman has done. I echo the remarks, the praise that was sung by our friends from Texas to the great job that Chairman Wolf has done in his career. I appreciate, for example, tonight that he is yielding me this time, knowing that he has strong disagreement about which I will be speaking. Tomorrow, I will be offering an amendment to the CJS appropriations bill, along with my colleagues Sam Farr, Don Young, Earl Blumenauer, Tom McClintock, Steve Cohen, Paul Broun, Jared Polis, Steve Stockman, Barbara Lee, Justin Amash, and Dina Titus. Very simply, our amendment would prohibit the Department of Justice from using funds in the bill from preventing States from implementing their State medical marijuana laws. Importantly, this amendment gives us an opportunity to show our support and what we really believe about the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, and it gives us an opportunity to support the intentions of our Founding Fathers and Mothers. They never meant for the Federal Government to play the preeminent role in criminal justice. It should be disturbing to any constitutionalist that the Federal Government insists on the supremacy of laws that allow for the medical use of marijuana. So far, 28 States and the District of Columbia--that is a majority of the States of the Union--have enacted laws to allow access to medical marijuana or its chemical derivatives.…”