Jeff Landry: “Thank you, Mr. Graves. Mr. Huelskamp was just on the mark. I will venture to say that today's ruling actually…”

“Thank you, Mr. Graves. Mr. Huelskamp was just on the mark. I will venture to say that today's ruling actually extinguishes the fire of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It destroys life, liberty, and that pursuit. The question today for this country can best be summed up by President Ronald Reagan when he said, back in the 1960s, in a speech: Will history write that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent it from happening? This is a sad and tragic day for the Constitution. Where are the limits of our government? While the Court has answered that the Commerce Clause does have its limits and gives us that ruling, it takes away by saying that Congress has unlimited taxing power. Its limits are unlimited. I guess that Congress now, when it sees fit to regulate an issue, an industry, need only now to turn to its taxing power, as Mr. Huelskamp said. This law was sold to us as a mandate and not a tax. It was reaffirmed by the President that this is not a tax. Yet, when the arguments were made to its constitutionality, this administration took the position that it was a tax, and the Court agreed. Let's see the taxes.…”