Bob Barr: “Mr. Chairman, as the previous speaker from Florida said, this is an issue about States' rights. It is not anti-commerce…”

“Mr. Chairman, as the previous speaker from Florida said, this is an issue about States' rights. It is not anti-commerce, it is not anti-free enterprise. What we must keep in mind is that there are legitimate areas where States have carved out the responsibility in support of their constituents to regulate certain types of activity, whether it be illicit drugs or sale of alcohol to minors. We must constantly try and balance the rights of States, the powers of States, to exercise legitimate supervision in those particular areas which, if not properly supervised, would be harmful to the citizens of that State against what we all here believe in, and that is free enterprise and the capitalist system. But we must ask ourselves, in that regard, at what price is free enterprise allowed to reign? We have witnessed in recent weeks tremendous damage to our national security, information on that damage coming forward, where secrets and very important military national security information was disclosed and made available to China, including information made available to China by companies seeking to exercise so-called free enterprise. Free enterprise does not mean that corporations and companies in America can do whatever they want whenever they want with whom they want.”