Steve Buyer: “I reclaim my time. Your interpretation of unfettered discretion is a great attempt at artful words, but that is not what…”

“I reclaim my time. Your interpretation of unfettered discretion is a great attempt at artful words, but that is not what we did in that bill. What I am most concerned about here, and let's just pause for a second. When we came to the floor and we did the Fallen Heroes bill, we did this because we wanted to make sure it was narrowly tailored. And we said, what is our nexus? Our nexus here is Federal land of exclusive jurisdiction. So I remember a conversation about this, and Mr. Conyers, and it is very important: Federal land. And so we said, okay, Arlington, owned by the United States Army and our national cemeteries. This now is about everything else. So the intent here is solid. It is unfortunate that we have come to the floor to talk about the standards of dignity at a military funeral. We really shouldn't be having to do that. That is what is sad about this. And I think we all agree that we need to set the standards of dignity. We are talking about now setting a misdemeanor with regard to, we are going to set the content out there with regard to all of these funerals; and my only concern here is, is I do not want this stricken down as overbreadth under the doctrine that the Supreme Court to do that, and I am hopeful that doesn't happen.”