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Rep. Bachmann: Tax Bill Violates Article 1, Section 7 of U.S. Constitution

By Nicholas Ballasy
December 15, 2010
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(CNSNews.com) -- Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told CNSNews.com that the tax bill passed by the Senate on Wednesday violates the U.S. Constitution.

“Article 1, section 7 says that all revenue bills originate in the House and that is our province and, of course, this originated in the Senate,” she told CNSNews.com in an interview Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

The House of Representatives  is expected to vote on the tax deal passed by the Senate on Thursday or Friday. The bill was the result of a deal cut between President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders.

Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution states: “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”

In a videotaped interview, Bachmann told CNSNews.com: “It’s a perfect example of what’s wrong in Washington, which is members of Congress not listening or reflecting [on] the Constitution or the role of the people. That’s why in January I’m starting new classes and seminars on the Constitution for members of Congress.”

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.)

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn) (Associated Press photo/Ron Edmonds)

Bachmann said Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin  Scalia has “graciously agreed” to speak at the first seminar on Jan. 24.

“During the hour prior to the first votes of the week, we’ll be meeting in the Capitol to study the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, [and] the Bill of Rights,” Bachmann told CNSNews.com.

“In other words, members of Congress will wrap their minds around these magnificent documents and, hopefully, that will inform us as to the limits of our jurisdiction and Congress will stop acting outside of the Constitution,” she said.

Bachmann’s office has confirmed to CNSNews.com that she will vote against the tax compromise.

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  • onthegobenders 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    Accountability starts at the top!  Rep Bachmann has the right idea, inform and educate; most importantly, follow the constitutional direction which has afforded this country the freedoms and prosperity it has come to expect. 

  • Dixiesuzan 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    In England the main power of Parliament over the claims of the King to all power being vested in the Throne has been the power of the purse. A king could declare war but he couldn't fight it if unfunded. Kings could try everything , but had to violate their oath and English law to fund it. James II lost his throne for exactly that reason. He dissolved Parliament who kept refusing to do what he wished and commanded. He attempted to govern without a Parliament and used all sorts of technical ruses to raise money to fund his plans. Basicly taxation without representation since no Parliament existed and he taxed by decree contrary to Law. In the English Parliament, proposed disbursements from the national treasury must originate in the House of Commons, not the House of Lords. The King could possibly bribe his way to success in the House of Lords but not in the House of Commons. Our Congress is modeled on the English Parliament. The Senate is our House of Lords for the Senate has direct agents representing State civil government, 2 per State. The House of Representatives is our House of Commons, representing the people directly. State civil government agents and the people must agree to a proposed Statute to make the total legislative power. This includes bills of appropriations which must originate in the House of Representatives. Any civil authority who attempts to originate bills of appropriation in any other place is worthy of impeachment just as King James II lost his throne over the same act in the Glorious Revolution of 1689.

  • Max 3 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    T-Party & RINOs (Warfare debt party)/DINOs (Democratic Welfare debt party) have nothing in common.
    U.S. citizens (T-Party) want LESS debt, LESS spending, LESS government, LESS taxation.
    Debt parties (RINOs/DINOs) want debt, more government, more spending, more illegal immigration, more CIA drugs entering U.S., patriot act attack on Constitution, UN-Constitutional attack on AZ immigration laws, UN-Constitutional attack on CA Prop 8, and less Constitution (see above).
    Now, RINOs seek to absorb T-Party with phony RNC debate.
    T-Party: Stand Proud, Stay Independent. Know these facts.
    PS: End the Deficit - TAX THE FEDERAL RESERVE!

  • Jimmycc 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    U.S. citizens (T-Party) want LESS debt, LESS spending, LESS government, LESS taxation.>>>>>Not sure where you get that. Most people are stupid, lazy cows. As long as the TV works, they can get power, gas and food, they have no understanding or care about what the govt is doing. They make empty, false statements like "education is most important", yet they don't read books, are uneducated in science and math, and are FAR more concerned with what their kids wear to school.

  • urmlr 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    Hmm, have I not heard almost exactly same words? Yes, Jimmy, now I recall, you know where? At the department of "Marxist-Leninist sciences" in one university in the former USSR.

    Frankly, I shouldn't even have to read your subsequent posts, so predictable...

  • Hihoze 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    Awesome. The U. S. Capitol and the Supreme Court teaming up to teach the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. It should be a regular feature for tourists presented every hour on the hour in a theater. She should make it a DVD for every middle and high school in the country. We need more James Madison and less Karl Marx in America.

  • gunfire7778 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    Keep the Bush Tax cuts Democrats the obama regime news network needs to get rectal exam over payed Liberal Jerk Balls

  • Trp 878 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    We suggest the new congress repeal all bills passed by the lame duck congress. Then make the changes necessary to keep the "snubbing" of the country's wishes from ever occurring again. Remember, 20 years from now the new voters will not even be aware of what has transpired today.

  • db 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    We need 434 more Michele Bachmanns

  • S2rrrrrrrrrrr5 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
  • bobtuusey 3 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    The fact is that the takers are now the majority.
    With so many out of work depending on unemployment, or on welfare the workers that pay are out numbered at the ballot box.
    So long as these leaders can keep people on the public dollar, bribe them for their vote they will remain in office.
    Both sides R and D are guilty.
    My only question is will we wake up in time, will we grab our pitch fork and torch, march on DC and our State Capitals, or will we become slaves.

  • Jimmycc 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    The fact of the matter is, your comment is shallow and lacks understanding of what has been going on for at least 60yrs. WHY are people on unemployment? Because big business + govt (known as fascism) work together against the interests of America and Her citizens. This used to be called "traitorous". Today, it is called 'freedom'. People can either take unemployment, which they've likely paid into, or be homeless. Gee, tough decision.

  • Lahded 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    Sorry, companies pay unemployment insurance, not individuals.

  • Nonya 10 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    Do you know what floors me about this? In poly sci I learned that 80% or more of all congressmen are lawyers. Now, how is it possible that lawyers do not know the constitution of this country?

  • Max 3 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    Yes. And Poly Sci was designed by Carl Marx; the false evolutionary theory of societies - ending in the ultimate society of socialism.
    Don't you love the false political Carl Marx spectrum of DINOs on the left and RINOs on the right, near NAZIs. There is no place for freedom. No place for a Constitution. No place for free enterprise.
    How about a debt spectrum? RINOs (Warfare debt party) and DINOs (Welfare debt party) on the left, with the T-Party on the right (who want no debt, no deficit spending, no welfare, no warfare, no Federal Reserve counterfeiters (who pay NO taxes, ever), less governemnt: in short everything the debt parties DON'T want).
    This spectrum makes much more sense.

  • Jimmycc 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    You are an idiot and jackass. How do I know? You can't even spell "Karl Marx" correctly, but feign to be an expert on politics. Grow up Peter Pan....Count Chocula...

  • Macristo1 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    Look who's name-calling. That makes you the idiot with no defendable opion of your own.

  • Hihoze 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    They don't like the Constitution. Our Constitution is a law that restricts government. It was designed to limit a central power and disperse the decisions out to the governed. Liberal Progressives are rooted in Marx, not Madison it is as simple as that. Progressive lawyers and judges know that it is easier to control you through a court decision than it is for the people to overturn a bad decision with a Constitutional amendment. So it began. If you didn't learn how our Constitution was killed in you poly sci classes, and it is absolutely dead, then you should file a law suit against your college for fraud and theft for charging you to learn their lies.

  • Jimmycc 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    MORON: show where there was any more freedom under raygun, or the shrubs, younger and elder. You can't. Grow up you partisan hack. YOU are the reason for the decline of America.

  • BrianWren 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    It is possible because of the massive leftist intrusion into academia.

    Leftists, totalitarians, and collectivists do not like the US constitution, and so, when they wind up running law schools, they minimize it, focusing instead on stare decisis, and case law.

    For strong support of this allegation, look into the Frankfurt School, and recent columns (from the last quarter) by Paul Kengor, and interviews with him.

  • Jimmycc 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    For strong support that you are a moron, explain what all the republican lawyers have been doing for 60yrs. Same ignoring of the Constitution as the leftists. Grow up you retard.

  • Rt5 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    John
    I agree why don't these lawyers know the constitution

  • Gbill 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    They know the constitution, but think most Americans are too stupid to realize they are breaking the rules, so they try to do what they want!

  • L8226178 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    this is not necessarily true scince the tax cuts were already in exsicstance and are smiply being altered

  • Adsicks 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    I bet they put her on a watch list...

  • BrianWren 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    Classes on the Constitution?

    They won't come... I wish it could be mandatory, as a condition of taking your seat, to pass a test on the Constitution.

    But the congress would have to pass a bill to make that happen, and they won't...

  • Nate Higgins 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    They could show up and get an "education" maybe pass a test, but that does not change their black hearts. The problem is that power corrupts. We are returning to the corruption that lead to this experiment in the first place. This form of Government is wholly inadequate for a Godless and immoral people; the ruling class is a reflection of the hearts of this nation, our hearts are set against God, and we are learning the consequences. The Fathers of the Revolution won by the Grace of God, they relied on him and made a public proffession of relying on Him, and honoring God. When we as a nation return to that, God will again bless this nation and cuase us to prosper.

  • Stephen 6 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    Why should anyone in our government care about the constitution. Obama didn't have to prove he was qualified to be president in accordance with Article 2, Section 1; why should congress care about Article 1. Politicians know the majority of the electorate are ignorant and could care less.

  • Max 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    Yes.
    Where were the RINOS who should have challenged Obutthead's illegal immigrant status?

  • Irrealtor 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    we have to start some place.

  • BrianWren 3 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    Have you ever seen any president prove they were qualified in accordance with Article 2, Section 1 before taking office?

  • Jimmycc 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    There has never before been a person seriously vying for the Presidency who was not clearly born here, or who wrote about his family in Africa. Are you stupid, or just trying to be a pita?

  • Thegoal 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    Senator McCain was forced to prove his eligibility during the campaign when the Obama campaign raised questions. So yes, I have seen it happen.

  • zelda moore 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    I love this woman! She needs to be in a leadership position but the country club repubs want to keep her down. she will rise becuase the people will back her.

  • BrianWren 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    It is not “country club Republicans,” it is “ruling class Republicans.”

    See Codevilla’s essay, “The American Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution” to get a really good understanding of this line of demarcation.

  • craigs 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    This isn't a reflection of what's 'wrong' in washington. It's a reflection on the fact that we have a ruling class.

    We will always have a ruling class for as long as people of the country are living off government handouts.

    If the people weren't living off unemployment, welfare, food stamps, and everything else people would get tired of working only to support such crap.

    This cycle will never end until the welfare state ends. Only once people have to put in 8-12 hour days to support themselves will they change their minds on how they see government.

    Otherwise as long as the idiots can continue to watch television and use their food stamps there is no stopping this type of government.

    Remember it's all being done for us; and you still have goofballs out there saying how we need universal health care here. Doing some quick research on some of these people revealed to me at least that they are nobodies that live off the government with government loans and government everything.

    So yeah if your living off the government for everything you need something else for free doesn't sound that bad does it.

    Those of us that have to work for what we have see things a little differently. The kid that pays his way through medical school or has his parents pay for them is different then the one getting their education paid for by the taxpayers.

  • BrianWren 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    @“We will always have a ruling class for as long as people of the country are living off government handouts...”

    This is the wrong focus. The ruling class is not the ruling class because they rule, but because they believe themselves to be more superior, more enlightened, more suited to make decisions for others. This is unrelated to welfare.

    It might be a little reltaed, given the following. We will have a ruling class until enough of us decide that we no longer will put up with being dictated to, and take the steps to secure liberty.

  • DRight 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    I wondered how a bill could originate in the Senate; but this says more than unconstitutional. It says the Senate and the President are in collusion against the Constitution. This includes the Rino Republican McConnell.

  • Jim B 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand

    All innovation, money, efficiency, and oh yeah....JOBS originate in the private sector. All government does is take away from the private sector whether it is money, talent, or jobs. Look at the inner cities. When people could deduct real estate losses rental properties abounded. Remove the incentive to deduct these "losses" on your taxes and now the feds have to pump billions into "revitalization" projects. Why blight? The inner cities were booming in the 50s and 60s. Because the government tried to replace the market. Which is less expensive and more efficient: give some tax breaks to business people so they will invest in the inner city or the fed's funding the Department of Housing and Urban Development with grant after grant and program after program none of which work?

  • Walk3r83 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand

    Not only should it be a requirement to know the Constitution...but I would like to see mandatory drug testing for all elected and non-elected politicians.We have to do it...so should they.

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