Spatter dash and poppy cock.

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My colleagues know when we began this new session off Congress, we enacted a new Rule 12, Section 7, Subsection 5C1, that requires that all enrolled bills have a statement attached that states the constitutional authority under which the bill may be considered. And I can read from Subsection (5) C1: ‘Record a statement, citing as specifically as practical, the powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the bill.’

When this bill [the ‘Right To Life’ Act, HR 358] was enrolled on January 20, 2011, that statement… (it failed) to do so. As such this bill has not been duly enrolled. I ask that it not be considered today, and that the remedy be that it be re-introduced with a proper statement, and that the bill be considered at that time.

The language that was included in the record reads as follows: … the Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: ‘The Protect Life Act,’ which apparently is the short title for this — would overturn a unconstitutional mandate requiring abortion in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Unlike every other bill that has been introduced in this session of Congress by Democrats and Republicans alike, no section of the Constitution is stated, no subsection, no constitutional authority whatsoever. It’s as if someone said, ‘We’re not going to be considering a bill because we don’t like it or we don’t think its constitutional.

The requirement of the rule is clear: it says it has to, to enact a bill, the power granted to the Congress in the Constitution (must be cited) — none of this language refers to that — and I make this point of order for two reasons: one is, I think we should follow the rules, I think this is our first day, and I like that section that the Republican majority insisted upon. I think we should always think about the constitutional underpinnings of what we do.

Secondly… there is a serious question where, if push came to shove, you’d have the ability to point to where it is in the Constitution you could take a woman’s right away — where you have to be able to say where, under the Fourth Amendment, you have the right the to deny the right of privacy to half of the population of our country. And for those reasons, I insist upon my point of order and the remedy that the bill be not considered on this day.

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