Pat Meehan: “The point I also was going to make on severability is, if this amendment were to pass, with all the amendments that can…”

“The point I also was going to make on severability is, if this amendment were to pass, with all the amendments that can be offered, how easy it would be for the other side to simply offer and pass a clearly patently unconstitutional amendment and the whole bill is dead. So it could not be clearer, could not be clearer, that this amendment is a poison pill to kill this bill. Because even if everything in the bill is totally 100 percent constitutional, unlike the telecommunications bill, unlike the Brady bill, and unlike a lot of bills we pass, all they would have to do is come in with a nongermane amendment that sounds good but that they know is unconstitutional and it is over.”