House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) refused to answer whether terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, if captured, should be told he has a right to a lawyer and a right to remain silent.
Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Tex.) said the Obama administration was figuratively bowing forforeign countries' approval in its decision to prosecute 9/11 plotters in a civilian court in New York City.…
President Obama said six months before his administration decided to try KSM in a civilian court that military commissions protect intelligence sources and terror trial participants.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said the decision to try KSM in a civilian court is "asinine" and has terrorists "laughing at us."
Award-winning singer Stevie Wonder said he has not seen the Michael Jackson movie "This Is It" and "can't really handle going to see it now."
Musician Stevie Wonder said it was "ridiculous" that America does not have a health care system like other countries.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D.-Ore.) says that Congress gets authority to force Americans to buy health insurance as part of its "very first enumerated power."
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said that Congress' constitutional authority to require individuals to buy health insurance is like Medicaid, Medicare and states requiring driver's licenses.
Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) said the Constitution does not give Congress the power to require people to buy health insurance "in that respect" but "in ways to help citizens" to "live a good life…
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) told CNSNews.com that because he is not a “constitutional scholar,” he is unable to say where in the Constitution Congress gets authority to mandate that Americans buy…
Sen. Jack Reed (D.-R.I.) said forcing people to buy health insurance is consitutionally justified because it is like making people "sign up for the draft."
Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said he has no other chocie but to filibuster any Senate health care bill that contains a government-run public option.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) said that the Democrats' health care bill "shred" the U.S. Constitution, adding that the bill's mandate to buy insurance probably would be challenged in the courts.
Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight said that the Democrats' health care bill would "decimate" the U.S. economy and that he does not think mandating that Americans buy health insurance is…
Sen. John McCain predicts there will be a constitutioal challenge to the provision in the health care bill that forces Americans to buy health insurance.
Best-selling author Mark Levin told a rally at the Capitol yesterday that lawmakers who want to force Americans to buy health insurance are saying "the hell with the Constitution."
Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) said that he backs Hyde amendment-type language to prohibit abortion-funding in the health care bill but is not going "to draw lines in the sand" over the issue at this…
Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) said that the Constitution's "health, welfare" provision gives Congress authority to mandate that individuals purchase health insurance.
President Barack Obama signed a $680.2 billion defense spending bill last week, saying it reduces tens of billions of dollars in wasteful weapons programs.
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) says President Obama should “be held responsible” for the government’s lack of preparedness in addressing the swine flu epidemic. Wilson said this was one crisis Obama…
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah), a longtime member of the Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com the health care plan's mandate forcing Americans to buy health insurance is "not constitutionally sound…
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) questioned the constitutionality of Obamacare, noting if the federal government can force Americans to buy health insurance, it can force them to do anything.
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) said he must contact HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to oppose donating swine flu vaccine overseas until after Americans are covered.
The White House has changed its rhetoric on the question of abortion funding in the health care bill.
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told CNSNews.com there is no case law to demonstrate 'veracity' of argument that Constitution does not authorize government to force Americans to buy health…