The House actually had already passed the Authority for Mandate Delay Act.

The President's duty alone.

If a President can unilaterally change the meaning of laws in substantial ways or refuse to enforce them, it takes off line that very thing that stabilizes our system.

we could be making meaningful progress toward crafting and passing laws for the betterment of the American people.

It is upon that covenant that we should not divide by parties and we should stand firmly for the separation of powers.

This is wholesale suspension of law in the teeth of a clear statutory command to the contrary.

Taking steps to deal with the realities of implementation of a complex program hardly constitutes a failure to take care that the laws are faithfully executed.

For decades, this Congress has allowed its core authority to drain away.

the established will of the majority of the Senators and the House of Representatives was to do what? To protect the DREAMers.

the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

I think at the same time we must recognize that there should have been public objection to Marilyn Tavenner signing that document for a website that clearly was not ready for prime time.