[Political Junkie Too]

Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, says his objection is very basic – the Constitution doesn’t authorize Congress to do anything remotely like banning a product that has been used safely and efficiently for more than 100 years in favor of Chinese-imported compact fluorescent light bulbs that pose considerable health and safety risks.

You mean they can't find anything in the General Welfare clause, or the Commerce clause?

-PJ

[MrB]

Lightbulbs are shipped across state lines, so they are subject to regulation under the Interstate Commerce Clause.

This is what they use to justify EVERYTHING.

The founders CLEARLY meant that the feds could intervene only when there was a dispute between the states.

[rahbert]

It must be there somewhere, emanating from under that prenumbra...