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Rob Woodall: We have got our Presidential primary coming up in Georgia in the first week of March, and everybody is talking about…

On the recordFebruary 12, 2016
We have got our Presidential primary coming up in Georgia in the first week of March, and everybody is talking about what it means to be an American and where it is we want America to go. I love that conversation. I love that it is happening on the Democratic side of the aisle. I love that it is happening on the Republican side of the aisle. I love that it is happening in every household in America. What I don't hear as much conversation about--and I wish that I did-- is about that rule book for how America is supposed to be run, called the United States Constitution. Folks seem to have a firm grasp on it when they want to be the President of the United States. They lose that grasp when they get to be President of the United States, because they want to serve. They so badly want to serve. What I have here, Mr. Speaker, are a couple of quotes from President Obama. He says: I taught constitutional law for 10 years, and I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we are facing right now have to do with George Bush's trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all; and that is what I intend to reverse when I am President of the United States of America. Now, that was at a Pennsylvania townhall meeting, Mr. Speaker, when the President was running for office.…
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Feb 12, 2016

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