All I can tell you is that I don't take it as a joke in our defending and protecting the Constitution, which gives us the ability to serve here today. The people gave us the ability to be here based upon what the Constitution laid out for us. That is the plan. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Alabama (Mrs. Roby).
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