Cliff Stearns: “first of all, most of the folks on that side of the aisle keep talking about that we are mending and changing the…”

“first of all, most of the folks on that side of the aisle keep talking about that we are mending and changing the Constitution. But I think the argument has been shown to be overwhelmingly wrong and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) will have to agree, and he would now say clearly, it does not violate the Constitution to pass this bill. And I think others will agree with that. So the people that come down here and say it violates the Constitution are wrong, for your side of the aisle to say we are violating the Constitution, amending and changing it, clearly we are not. The distinguished chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary has given you nine examples, recent examples, of where we have used almost the same clause or language to do the same thing we are doing today. Did you know that to expedite construction for the World War II Memorial we did this same thing. We did it for the Terrorist Risk Insurance Act, the Department of Justice Authorization Act, which I am sure the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) voted for. The Intelligence Act, the PATRIOT Act, even for campaign finance reform in which the majority of the people on that side of the aisle voted for. But now let us talk about the Daschle Act. Now that is more recent and I think something we should mention.…”