Melvin Watt: “Mr. Speaker, I really had about made up my mind not to come over and even debate this amendment today. It is quite…”

“Mr. Speaker, I really had about made up my mind not to come over and even debate this amendment today. It is quite obvious that this is not a serious effort to amend the Constitution. What it is, instead, is a serious effort to make a political statement about taxation. We have, every year now for the last 3 or 4 years, had this same proposal on the floor. There are not even any pretenses this year, because I am the ranking member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary. This amendment did not even come through the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary this year to be considered.”