[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 65 (Friday, May 16, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2862]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            VOTING FOR LIBERTARIANISM IS VOTING FOR LIBERTY

  (Mr. PAUL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, we have just finished the debate on the jobs 
programs bill, and in the discussion I was referred to as a 
libertarian, but a very consistent one that voted the same way on each 
type of legislation.
  I would like to remind my colleagues that voting for libertarianism 
is voting for liberty. Also it is a very consistent vote with the 
doctrine of enumerated powers. It is said in the Constitution that we 
can only do here in the Congress which is enumerated by the clauses 
within the document. So therefore, if it is said that I am very 
consistent and want to be labeled as libertarian, that is one thing, I 
do not deny that. But in the other sense, I am a strict 
constitutionalist that obeys and listens very carefully to my pledge to 
the Constitution as well as paying close attention to the ninth and 
tenth amendment.

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