"The Constitution should not be used as a political tool by George W. Bush, and as the ranking Democrat on the Constitution Subcommittee, I will fight tooth and nail to protect the Constitution," he said. "I firmly believe that many of my colleagues from both sides of the aisle will stand with me to preserve our nation's most sacred document.... The truth is that the president's egregious attempt to enshrine discrimination in our Constitution is no more than a search for a wedge issue in the 2004 campaign to distract the American public from the fact that the president and the Republican Congress have failed to address the historic loss of 3 million jobs, the largest deficit in American history, and inequities in public education and health care."
Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution |
