Patrick Leahy: “But you understand some of the concerns that many of us up here are suggesting, that the States are suddenly being…”

“But you understand some of the concerns that many of us up here are suggesting, that the States are suddenly being protected from taking responsibility for discrimination, for example, that they or their agencies decide to do or violating other people's copyrights that they or their agencies do, that they are protected, and--I mean, I have to ask myself were not the Civil War amendments, including the Fourteenth, designed as an expansion of Federal power and actually an intrusion into State sovereignty?”