Committee to hear 10th Amendment debate

Tea Party Activists are praising a decision by a legislative committee to hold a public hearing on a proposed resolution which would allow the state to consider whether federal laws violate the U.S. Constitution.

Representatives of some 28 groups packed a legislative hearing room Wednesday to announce that their proposal had been accepted by the Government Administration and Elections Committee for debate.

"Today we are pushing back," said Tanya Bachand of Connecticut Tea Party Patriots. "We are demanding that our elected state representatives uphold the Tenth Amendment and say no to unconstitutional federal action."

The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

These organizations believe that the proposed federal health care law, being pushed by President Barack Obama, violates that amendment.

No date has been set for the hearing.