Melvin Watt: “this bill puts us in a position of sitting here on this floor and getting into these kinds of irrelevant debates. I…”

“this bill puts us in a position of sitting here on this floor and getting into these kinds of irrelevant debates. I agree with my friend, the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Hoyer]. We ought not exempt this one agency without exempting other agencies. We ought to exempt the entire American people from the effects of this bill. That is what the amendment ought to say. If we believe in the Constitution this demon bill, 666, ought to be withdrawn and go back where it came from and never see the light of day again. Give me the Constitution, drawn by the Founding Fathers, not some version of rights thought up by the Republican Contract for America. I will take the Constitution any day.”