Harold Volkmer: “earlier today during a one-minute I mentioned that what I see going on in this Congress and this House is just pure…”

“earlier today during a one-minute I mentioned that what I see going on in this Congress and this House is just pure lunacy. You know, under Webster's Dictionary, lunacy is intermittent derangement. I recognize that here. It is insanity. That has been mentioned here. Great or wild foolishness, a lot of that, and a widely foolish act. There is no question in my mind that what has been going on in this House of Representatives since the December 15 is lunacy. You know, I can remember back when I was a young person we had a name for people with lunacy. They called them lunatics. There is no question in my mind that in this House today we have got a whole bunch of lunatics. They do not understand really how this government is supposed to operate. They do not understand that under the forefathers, this government, under our Constitution, was developed as a tripartite, three-body, system. We had the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the President. They are coequal. One is not better than the other. One is not supposed to be more powerful than the other. Then in a range of appropriations, they gave the House the power; taxation the same; the power to initiate legislation, only the House. But then they gave the President the power of veto, and they said if you want to override that veto, it takes two-thirds of each house to do it. That is the way this Congress had operated for over 200 years, until 1995.…”