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Ted Yoho: I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Weber). I appreciate him standing up for the rule of law because, if we are not a…

On the recordApril 27, 2016
I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Weber). I appreciate him standing up for the rule of law because, if we are not a Nation of law, everything falls apart, civil society falls apart. Just last week in my district there was a fight over transgender bathrooms. It is a fight people want to have. We came up here at the beginning of last week and spoke in front of the Supreme Court. They heard the argument on the President's Executive order on November 20, 2014, to waive our immigration laws and grant 4 to 5 million people here illegally resident status. That case was heard last week, and there was a large group of proponents wanting the Supreme Court to side with the President. Our President has said over 22 times that he cannot change that law. He has admitted to that. I thought it was ironic that the people in my district were arguing over transgender bathrooms and the group up here--and I know a lot of them were here illegally--were arguing in the United States of America in front of the Supreme Court, the freest country in the world. The only reason that they can come up and have a voice of dissension is because we have a Constitution. Our Constitution, when it was formed, wasn't a Republican idea and wasn't a Democratic idea. It was something that came together after 1,000 years from the Magna Carta on up that formed a Constitution that formed the Republic that we have.…
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Apr 27, 2016

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