Paul Coverdell: “I rise in support of her amendment. I had an opportunity to speak to this issue just yesterday to several assembled…”

“I rise in support of her amendment. I had an opportunity to speak to this issue just yesterday to several assembled journalists. I said one of the striking features about the issue that is before us is how it reminds us of a rather growing pattern of this administration to circumvent the legislative branch. If you think on it, this issue, which is very controversial, has been argued before this Senate repeatedly and the provision that the President is trying to put in place has been rejected here. It has not found acceptance in the people's branch of our Government. So now we find the President trying to accomplish by Executive fiat what the people's branch of Government would not do. It reminds me of Somalia, of Haiti, of Mexico, and now striker replacement. Time and time again we see the administration coming for acceptance to the legislative branch, the people's branch, for the impact and reflection of what the American people are arguing or are wishing for. And when that cannot be accomplished, he will just bypass it, circumvent it. I do not think this is going to set very well with the American people as they begin to focus on a pattern of moving around their interests. I am always taken aback, still. I have been here going into the third year. I still am perplexed by a city that seems to feel that it and it alone can establish the relationships in the free marketplace of this great country.”