Political Quotes

“We're striking the findings. By striking statements of constitutional authority for the bill, the amendment recognizes that many Members of the House question Congress' constitutional authority to pass H.R. 5. So for that reason, my colleagues, the findings are all important. Supporters of states' rights ought to take the next step and eliminate the section of the bill that preempts State law. Indeed, many supporters of the underlying bill have spent years arguing that decisions about health care are fundamentally prerogatives of the State. So I have only 18 conservative or Republican scholars and leaders that agree with me, including the Heritage Foundation; the Virginia attorney general, Mr. Cuccinelli; the constitutional law professor at Georgetown Law Center; the distinguished Senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Coburn; some of our colleagues, including Judge Ted Poe of Texas, our colleague from Nebraska, Lee Terry, former judge Louie Gohmert, in particular, Ron Paul; the founder of the Tea Party Nation, Judson Phillips. It goes on and on, where we are all in agreement that the findings are, indeed, critical and ought to be left in the bill. To take the findings out is incredible because we say that the Federal Government shouldn't be involved, that it's a State matter, and tort law, itself, is a State matter.…”