Lateefah Simon: “If I may respond, on the one man-one-vote case, which grew out of the State of Tennessee, there was no explicit…”

“If I may respond, on the one man-one-vote case, which grew out of the State of Tennessee, there was no explicit jurisdiction claimed solely by the legislative bodies. And here we are going to claim that we have the jurisdiction. If I may respond just to a few other points that my friend from Louisiana made, he said--and a lot of my colleagues will disagree with what I have to say here, probably including my good friend from Utah. The Senator said, ``This is a good time to take good bites out of the deficit''--I wrote down the Senator's words--talking about the Federal Reserve Board. But the reality is we are competing with each other trying to get a tax cut right now.”