[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3095]
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             THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA AND THE 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, the Republicans have a 
Contract With America. Unfortunately, they do not seem to care whether 
it violates this contract with America, the Constitution of the United 
States.
  This contract with America, the Constitution, took another hit last 
week. They called it tort reform but what they did was federalize all 
the legal standards, and that, my friends, is contrary to the commerce 
clause and the 10th amendment to the Constitution.
  Let's strike out another provision in the Constitution, punch it out 
again, punch it out again, my Republican colleagues. Your Constitution 
is going down the drain. Punch it out again.

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