If I might suggest to my friend from Texas, the Constitution is not a rough working draft. You know, here we are, for the first time you are telling us what the words ``de minimis'' mean, which you want to put into the Constitution. Well, what you are saying is, as I calculate it, anything that is less than $1 rac{1}{2} billion, $1,500,000,000 could be considered de minimis. Is that----
Jerry Moran: “If I might suggest to my friend from Texas, the Constitution is not a rough working draft. You know, here we are, for…”
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Discussing the interpretation of constitutional language during a debate.
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