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On the recordMarch 18, 2015
I thank the chairman for the opportunity to speak on this very important bill. Mr. Chair, as I stand in the Chamber here, this historic Chamber, all around the top of the wall here are engraved images of great lawgivers who have influenced this Nation and the great institutions of government we have. As the Prime Minister of Israel pointed out, Moses is in the back, who gave us the natural laws our Founders referred to, but over my right shoulder, just above the rostrum, is the image of Thomas Jefferson. {time} 1300 Thomas Jefferson wrote about another set of laws and rights that are given to us. He also wrote 27 grievances--27 violations--of either the natural law that Moses wrote about or the natural rights of men that he wrote about in the Declaration of Independence. These were grievances against the King of England for violations against the natural laws or the natural rights of men. The 10th grievance, ironically, that he wrote about can also be seen as a warning to where we are today in this Nation. The 10th grievance says that: The King has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass the people and eat out their substance. What Jefferson was talking about was the multitude of regulations and regulatory agencies that the King of England had instituted here on the continent of North America.…
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Barry Loudermilk
Republican · Georgia

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