Peter Deutsch: “Reclaiming my time, that is also a very good question that needs to be responded to. Let me talk about the Constitution…”

“Reclaiming my time, that is also a very good question that needs to be responded to. Let me talk about the Constitution for a second, because I think the Speaker, speaks of the Constitution and he is a historian of the Constitution. He is a professor. He speaks as a professor quite often. The Constitution has a role in all this debate. We go back to that. What is our job? Our job is to appropriate. That is our power, going back to the Magna Carta. How many times have we heard the Speaker talk about the Magna Carta? That is our job. We are appropriating. There is a whole process set in place in the Constitution. The President has a role in our system of government. He has a role in the constitutional authority to veto appropriations bills that he finds objectionable and give to us those reasons. We have the constitutional option at that point, which is to override his veto or to send him another bill. But one of the questions which your side has not really answered, and, truthfully, it is disturbing, is that all of sudden you as the controlling part in this Chamber have now put into the Constitution a third option which really does not exist in the Constitution, which is what is going on now. What should be happening is going back and back, because I will tell you absolutely the truth, and I speak with absolute certainly this will happen: If you kept sending the President veto messages, eventually you will get a two-thirds veto override. I guarantee that will happen.”