Debbie Dingell: “this is an extraordinary day. My Republican colleagues are trying to federalize a whole bunch of State activities and…”

“this is an extraordinary day. My Republican colleagues are trying to federalize a whole bunch of State activities and State procedures and to impose Federal law both on the subject of rights and on the subject of procedure upon local units of government, a remarkable activity in view of all the talk I have heard on this side about devolution. Here are the questions that are potentially to be brought into the Federal court. Whether a community is going to permit a house of ill-repute, a place for nude dancing or adult book stores to be established in a particular area, whether there will be glue factories, slaughterhouses, nuclear waste dumps or hazardous waste dumps or, indeed, ordinary municipal dumps established at a particular place. These are hardly rights that should be litigated in a Federal court. This includes whether bars, crack houses, opium dens and places where narcotics, illegal drugs and illegal activities of all sorts are conducted.”