Melvin Watt: “the Republicans have a Contract With America. Unfortunately, they do not seem to care whether it violates this contract…”

“the Republicans have a Contract With America. Unfortunately, they do not seem to care whether it violates this contract with America, the Constitution of the United States. This contract with America, the Constitution, took another hit last week. They called it tort reform but what they did was federalize all the legal standards, and that, my friends, is contrary to the commerce clause and the 10th amendment to the Constitution. Let's strike out another provision in the Constitution, punch it out again, punch it out again, my Republican colleagues. Your Constitution is going down the drain. Punch it out again.”