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Amory Houghton: “I am not going to support this bill. I do not believe it is right. I think court-stripping is wrong. I do not think it…”

On the recordJuly 22, 2004
I am not going to support this bill. I do not believe it is right. I think court-stripping is wrong. I do not think it is sound; and frankly, I do not think it is going to work. How are we going to resolve the issue between States? I used to be in business, and Congress could have passed a law in the 1950s when the civil rights issue was heating up that would have prohibited any challenges to the segregated businesses that existed all around me. There never would have been a civil rights law, never would have been a Brown v. Board of Education. I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act. It defines marriage for a Federal purpose as a legal union between one man and one woman, and that is good enough for me.
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Amory Houghton
Republican · New York
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Opposing a bill related to court-stripping and discussing its implications on civil rights and marriage.

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