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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 November 2010 01:23 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 23 November 2010 01:23
From LJWorld.com:
U.S. Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, both Kansas Republicans, have joined a legal challenge of the new federal health care reform bill.
A legal brief, signed by 32 Republican senators, was filed in the lawsuit brought by Florida and 20 other states against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The senators contend that the congressionally approved requirement that people purchase health insurance oversteps the bounds of the commerce clause in the U.S. Constitution.
“Indeed, in more than 200 years of debate as to the proper scope of the Commerce Power, the Supreme Court has never suggested that the Commerce Power allows Congress to impose affirmative obligations on passive individuals, or to punish individuals for failing to purchase a particular product,” the legal brief states.