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House Speaker John Boehner told reporters late last week he wants “facts first” before voting to defund Planned Parenthood, …
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Let me get this straight. Not only has the RINO-controlled House read the Constitution, including Congress’s Article I, Section 8-limited powers, out loud at the starts of the last three legislative sessions, but a previous generation of state-sovereignty respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its Section 8-limited powers.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

So there’s under 30 seconds worth of facts that actually puts a constitutionally mandated stop to vote-winning federal Planned Parenthood funding.

23 posted on 07/28/2015 1:38:06 PM PDT by Amendment10
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BTTT


30 posted on 07/28/2015 3:52:04 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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