Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of this legislation that strives to restore the coequal balance of power between the legislative and executive branches and would establish a procedure for making sure all Presidents are accountable for meeting their constitutional obligation to faithfully execute all duly-enacted laws. Chairman Goodlatte, Congressman Gowdy, and members of the Judiciary Committee have done an outstanding job highlighting the need for such legislation and explaining to the American people why it is important to ensure the legislative and executive branches are functioning as intended by the framers. The bill before us today represents a collaborative effort to craft an effective legislative response to a series of unilateral actions by the President that he has taken in the last few years to selectively apply, enforce, and ignore duly-enacted laws. The Affordable Care Act--or ObamaCare--a law written and enacted exclusively by the President and Members of his party, has been delayed, amended, and effectively rewritten about two dozen times in the past year. The law hasn't changed by coming to Congress and working with us on reasonable changes or following the legislative process we were taught in high school civics. No, the law was modified because the President and his administration simply declared it to be changed, in most cases, on late Friday afternoons or right before a major holiday like Thanksgiving.…”