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Carl Levin: “Are you suggesting that under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, given what corporations do across boundaries…”

On the recordJune 17, 2009
Are you suggesting that under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, given what corporations do across boundaries of States, we do not have the jurisdiction in Congress to require States to ask the question on their incorporation forms?
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Levin questions the jurisdiction of Congress regarding state incorporation forms.

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