Roy Blunt: “as we talk today about passing new laws, I would like to take a few minutes to talk about enforcing the laws the…”

“as we talk today about passing new laws, I would like to take a few minutes to talk about enforcing the laws the Congress has already passed. I want to talk today about something that I believe has been pushed to the wayside too many times by the current administration, and that would be the Constitution of the United States. Article II, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution declares that the President-- coming right out of the Constitution--that the President ``shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.'' Simply put, constitutional requirements are just that--they are constitutional requirements. They are not constitutional suggestions. This is not something the Constitution does not clearly define. The branches of government in the Constitution are the judicial, the legislative, and the executive. And the job of the executive is, again, to do what? To ``take care that the laws be faithfully executed.'' Yet time and again President Obama has refused to enforce the law and shown a willingness, frankly, to misuse regulations, in my view, to sidestep the Congress, to sidestep what the law intended to do and, more importantly, to step around the Constitution.…”