Congress's Power to Regulate the Federal Judiciary: What the First Congress and the First Federal Courts Can Teach Today's Congress and Courts

REC. H6600 (daily ed.July 22, 2004) (statement of Rep. Nadler, opposing the bill under consideration) ("Mr.Speaker, I place into the RECORD a memo from the Congressional Research Service that says that Congress has never passed any legislation that denies to the Federal courts the jurisdiction to adjudicate the constitutionality of an act of Congress.").The debate on the House floor concerned H.R. 3313, a bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to limit federal court jurisdiction over questions under the Marriage Protection Act of 2004.See id. at H6580. 3. H.R. REP.No. 108-691, at 14-15, n.39 (2004) (citing Johnny H