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Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2008

Floor Speech

Date: June 28, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Finance and Banking Government Budget and Spending


FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2008 -- (House of Representatives - June 28, 2007)

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Mr. ISSA. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman.

Mr. Chairman, this is not a debate, not a legitimate debate, about whether or not the Vice President is in one branch or the other. After all, he presides over the U.S. Senate. So if we did not decide to put the funding into this particular appropriations bill, we would have to put it in the other.

This is a raw grab for power to defund an essential constitutional office, and it is wrong. And if it even comes close to passing, if it is not on a bipartisan basis defeated, the gentleman from Illinois will, in fact, have undercut the very underpinnings of the Constitution.

This is an important vote. It is an important vote because how dare we, how dare we use a maneuver like this, to try to stifle any constitutional officer, including our own.

I am ashamed to belong to a branch that would even consider this, and I am ashamed that the gentleman would do such a thing.

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