Political Quotes

“Every 2 years we as Members raise our right hand and swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. That means when bills come before this House we have a responsibility to, in our opinion, look to see if we are, in fact, following the Constitution. One of the unconstitutional provisions in the underlying bill is this provision that would require broadcasters to sell time at the lowest unit cost of any time during the last 180 days. It is clearly unconstitutional. There is no requirement in here that newspapers sell us ad time at the lowest possible rate or radio stations who get their air waves from the public. There is no requirement there that they pay the lowest unit cost. This is a subsidy to Federal office holders and only Federal office holders. It is blatantly unconstitutional. We should support the amendment offered by our colleagues, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green) and the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), and approve this product.”