Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, said Tuesday that repealing Democrats' national health care overhaul law would violate the U.S. Constitution — a claim strikingly contrary to many Republicans' claim that the law itself is unconstitutional.

During a meeting of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee Tuesday, Jackson Lee and her Democratic colleagues discussed Republicans' efforts to repeal the law. According to Jackson Lee, passing the GOP's repeal bill — H.R. 2 — would violate the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause because it would leave some Americans uninsured: