[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14094]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 SUPREME COURT SHIFTS POWER FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACK TO THE STATES

  (Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, this morning we hear the hue and 
cry of big government liberals everywhere, and what are they 
languishing over today? Not once, not twice, but three times yesterday 
the Supreme Court struck down overreaching Federal laws and uplifted 
the concept of State federalism. This was like a punch in the nose to 
those who relish more and more federal laws. They are now staggering 
under the blow.
  Mr. Speaker, what is their nose bent out of shape about? The Supreme 
Court shifted power from the Federal Government back to the States. 
More importantly, it said that the Federal Government has no business 
in usurping State sovereignty by placing layers and layers of Federal 
statutes on them.
  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Supreme Court rightly halted decades of 
presumption and arrogance by the Federal Government, and they are right 
moving the powers back to where it belongs, outside the Beltway and 
back to the people.
  Three cheers for the checks and balances.

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