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John Yarmuth: I can only think when I heard him make that statement, did he really think that maybe the Founding Fathers were wasting…

On the recordOctober 31, 2007
I can only think when I heard him make that statement, did he really think that maybe the Founding Fathers were wasting their time when they wrote the Constitution? Because the first thing they did when they wrote the Constitution was write article I, which established the Congress of the United States and vested all legislative powers in the Congress of the United States, not some of them, not those dealing with certain subjects, but all of them in the Congress of the United States. And the reason they did that was simple. They had escaped. They had revolted to escape a dictatorial form of government when one person was the decider. We've had one person who thinks he's the decider in the White House, and we've had members of both parties who have been in the White House and felt that they were the deciders, but that's not what the Founding Fathers envisioned.
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John Yarmuth
Democratic · Kentucky

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Discussing the role of Congress and the Founding Fathers' intentions during a floor speech.

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