[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 41 (Monday, March 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2660]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


  ANOTHER HOLE PUNCHED IN THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA REPRESENTS A GAP 
                   PUNCHED IN AMERICA'S CONSTITUTION

  (Mr. WATT of North Carolina asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WATT of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, this is a copy of the 
Constitution of the United States. I want Members to know that in this 
body it is under siege. Every time our Speaker shows up here and 
punches a hole in his laminated Contract With America, we can be almost 
guaranteed that they are punching another hole in the Constitution of 
the United States.
  Last week, it was the fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution that 
they punched a hole in systematically; before that, the fourth 
amendment, habeas corpus, and division of responsibility between the 
executive and legislative branch.
  I will be back here to tell Members every time they do it again. Do 
not be fooled when they punch that hole in the Contract With America. 
It is another notch, but it is another gap in the Constitution of the 
United States.

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