Tina Smith: “What I said is there are two options. One, those people, if they had the three-fifths provision, I think, would have…”

“What I said is there are two options. One, those people, if they had the three-fifths provision, I think, would have looked at it a lot differently, and they may have gotten more votes. Let us assume the Senator's position and say that did not happen. If it did not happen and this amendment were, in 1941, part of the Constitution, we then would have gone and spent money by taking money from someplace else in the budget because we would have believed that the national security interests of the United States should come first ahead of subsidies to apples or whatever else.”