BOB LIVINGSTON

The power to regulate commerce does not look to the principle by which boats were moved. That power was left to individual discretion. The act demonstrates the opinion of Congress that steamboats may be enrolled and licensed in common with vessels using sails. They are, of course, entitled to the same privileges and can no more be restrained from navigating waters and entering ports, which are free to such vessels, than if they were wafted on their voyage by the winds instead of being propelled by the agency of fire. The one element may be as legitimately used as the other, for every commercial purpose authorized by the laws of the river, and the act of a State inhibiting the use of either to any vessel, having a license under the act of Congress, comes, we think, in direct collision with that act. The acts of the Legislature of the State of New York, granting to Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton the exclusive navigation of all the waters within the jurisdiction of that State, with boats moved by fire or steam, for a term of years, are repugnant to that clause of the constitution of the United States, which authorizes Congress to regulate commerce, so far as the said acts prohibit vessels licensed, according to the laws of the United States, for carrying on the coasting trade, from navigating the said waters by means of fire or steam.

The State hereby grants the exclusive privilege of navigating all boats that might be propelled by steam, on all waters within the territory, or jurisdiction of the State, for the term of twenty years.

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

I have strayed from my marriage.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

Education, for me, has helped me in my music.

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin.

There are more non-committee chairmen than there are committee chairmen. And the non-committee chairmen want to be chairmen some day. They will not eliminate term limits on existing committee chairmen.

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin.

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.

We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

Education, for me, has helped me in my music.

There are more non-committee chairmen than there are committee chairmen. And the non-committee chairmen want to be chairmen some day. They will not eliminate term limits on existing committee chairmen.

I have strayed from my marriage.

We’ve got to stop this. This is crazy. We’re about to impeach the President of the United States.