Mark Souder: “I may be even more scared than you because Indiana is only 600 miles away from Washington; therefore, we are even more…”

“I may be even more scared than you because Indiana is only 600 miles away from Washington; therefore, we are even more vulnerable than the people in Arizona. One of the things that is unusual about this Congress is that we are actually having a discussion about the role of federalism and the role of States and the Federal Government. It has been something that we have been pushing. We are at a critical point here on national testing. As an American history buff, I have gone back and forth and wondered at the time of the founding of our country, would I have been more of an anti-Federalist or a Federalist? Where would I have been on the Articles of Confederation? Would I be like Fisher Ames from New England, who was very skeptical of the Constitution and worried that it was giving up States' rights, or Patrick Henry, another hero of mine, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' when he heard about the Articles of Confederation moving into the Constitution? He said, 'I smell a rat.' He was worried that the Constitution was going to be abused the way it is being abused today.”