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Ron Johnson: “That case was about the federal government not allowing a…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson on MSNBC

Published | Video Starts at 05:02

So let's, let's go Back to this, the basic precedent, the Wickard vs. Filburn, which is really what all this expansion, the commerce clause has come under. You just lost 80%. But this is very simple. Okay, That case was about the federal government not allowing a wheat farmer to grow enough wheat for his own personal consumption. That's what allowed the expansion of this commerce clause. That's absurd to me. What is a more basic human right than to grow food? For your senator, though, you just made his point. This law. Exactly. This law. (05:02–05:13)

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Asserts that the Wickard vs. Filburn case allowed the expansion of the commerce clause.

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