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On the recordJune 30, 2010
The only way Congress is going to be restrained is by one of two ways. Either the Court is going to say 'you've gone too far,' which occasionally they've done, or the people will amend the Constitution.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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Cornyn outlines mechanisms for restraining Congressional power.

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Sounds like a huge screwup. I mean, is there any other way to describe it?

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I don’t think that’s likely to happen.

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