Cliff Stearns: “I ask him later to come back and define what sexual orientation is. I am not sure he can define it, or anyone else in…”

“I ask him later to come back and define what sexual orientation is. I am not sure he can define it, or anyone else in this House, yet the President, in Executive Order 13087, adds behavioral characteristics of sexual orientation to the immutable characteristics of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin, even though the term sexual orientation has never really been defined. Now, what the gentleman from Colorado is trying to do is he is trying to roll back some of these executives orders from the President. His proposals make social reforms that he deems necessary despite the will of this body. And the gentleman from Colorado is saying tonight that let us stop funding these executive orders. This is not a debate about anything other than to try to stop the President from issuing executive orders that go against the will of Congress. Let me just give my colleagues a thought in closing, and this is from the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. "The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is dominated by the executive branch." Now, this is right from history, 2000 years ago, so I suggest we listen to it.”