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Summer Lee: This is an important issue, and I just want to start with sort of a given constitutional premise from the…

On the recordFebruary 15, 2011
This is an important issue, and I just want to start with sort of a given constitutional premise from the Wickard-Filburn case that indicates that even when a farmer grew his own wheat for personal consumption it was discerned that it was interstate commerce.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the constitutional implications of the Wickard-Filburn case on interstate commerce.

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