House Proceeding 09-17-09 on Sep 17th, 2009 :: 0:15:40 to 0:17:25
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Jerrold Nadler: wonderful work of all the places on earth where a person should be safe, it's at home. and that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. are there any further ruests for one-minute speechs? for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> ask unanimous consent to addr minute.

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Speech By: Jerrold Nadler

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Jerrold Nadler: objection, so ordered. >> thank you, mr. speaker. a little while ago the house passed an amendment to the bill that we were considering that says no contract or federal funds may ever go to acorn, a named organization, or to any individual or organization affiliated with acorn.

0:16:21 to 0:16:41( Edit History Discussion )

Jerrold Nadler: the spirit of the moment and nobody had the opportunity to point out that this is a flat violation of the constitution, constituting a bill to the constitution says the congress should never pass a bill of retaineder. no matter what their form applies either to named individual or to easily

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Jerrold Nadler: ascertainble members of a graup to inflict punishment. that's exactly what this amendment does. it may be that oicorn is guilty of various infractions and if so it ought to be vetted, maybe sanctioned, whatever, by the agency or the judiciary. congress must not in be the business of punishing individual organizations or people without

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Jerrold Nadler: trial. that's what this amendment did, it is flatly prohibited by the constitution and once confidence in this constitution is sapped when we ignore the constitution, we ignore constitutional principles, whatever one may think of the subject matter or constitution and the ban on

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Jerrold Nadler: bills of ataineder are there for