Melvin Watt: “I will tell my colleagues that this bill has not come to either one of those committees for hearings or consideration.…”

“I will tell my colleagues that this bill has not come to either one of those committees for hearings or consideration. It was simply brought to the floor so that we could deal with it on April 15, tax day, so that it could be the backdrop for a political debate on an issue that really needs substantive deliberate consideration. When we talk about doing away with the concept of majority rule, what we are doing is undermining the basic fabric and principle of the Constitution and the democracy that we are sent here to represent. So this whole notion that we can take one-third or one-fourth of our Members and tie up the whole process and make them a majority is counter democratic. Mr. Speaker, I have been arguing with my colleagues all this term that this whole concept of undermining the Constitution is not a conservative concept.”