Bill Text: TX HCR54 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging the United States Congress to reaffirm its commitment to the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, to abolish the Department of Education, the Federal Highway Administration, the Department of Commerce, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Labor, to reduce the federal income tax by an amount equal to the cost savings associated with the abolition of these agencies, to commit to never usurping the rights of the states in future legislation, and to refrain from exempting itself from any legislation it so passes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-18 - Referred to State Sovereignty, Select [HCR54 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HCR54-Introduced.html
82R5992 BPG-D | ||
By: Workman | H.C.R. No. 54 |
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WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the United States | ||
Constitution places clear limits on the reach of the federal | ||
government; however, through the years, the U.S. Congress has | ||
seized upon the Interstate Commerce Clause in Article 1, Section 8 | ||
of the Constitution as justification for methodically expanding its | ||
own powers; and | ||
WHEREAS, The Interstate Commerce Clause provides that | ||
Congress shall have only the authority "[t]o regulate Commerce with | ||
foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian | ||
Tribes" and should not be used to provide Congress with powers | ||
beyond those originally intended by the framers of the | ||
Constitution, such as the establishment of regulations, agencies, | ||
and government programs that usurp the duties and responsibilities | ||
reserved for the states by the Tenth Amendment; now, therefore, be | ||
it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 82nd Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to | ||
reaffirm its commitment to the Tenth Amendment of the United States | ||
Constitution by returning to the states the many duties and | ||
responsibilities reserved to them; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the 82nd Texas Legislature urge the Congress | ||
of the United States to abolish, in an orderly and expeditious | ||
fashion, within a time span not to exceed 10 years, the Department | ||
of Education, the Federal Highway Administration, the Department of | ||
Commerce, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the | ||
Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of | ||
Labor; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the 82nd Texas Legislature urge the Congress | ||
of the United States to reduce the federal income tax by an amount | ||
equal to the cost savings associated with the abolition of these | ||
agencies, to commit to never usurping the rights of the states in | ||
any future legislation, and to refrain from exempting itself from | ||
any legislation it so passes; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. |