This is an area where we actually have a very specific federal power and we have a very narrow, non abusive, non abusable grant of federal power to the federal government from the Constitution itself. This is not a federalism problem, Madam President, not by a mile. That leads to the next argument closely related to that one. The senior senator from Rhode island who was on a roll tonight, I'll give him Credit for that. (1:08:49–1:08:54)
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