Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, here we are engaging in the theater of the absurd, yet again, from our colleagues on the other side of the aisle just blatantly denying the power grab being carried out by the executive branch yet again. They don't seem to care so long as it suits their ends in terms of policy. Everybody who follows this understands that the court is almost certain to strike this down. We have already seen it happen in the Fifth Circuit. We are pretty clear about the extent to which this is an abuse of the Administrative Procedures Act, the extent to which this is an unconstitutional violation of our Second Amendment rights, and the court, no doubt, like the Fifth Circuit, will follow suit. That is just the simple truth, just like we expect the court to most likely rule that the President's power grab to extend a bailout for student loans will also be struck down. That is almost certainly true. However, what is also true is that it is incumbent upon the United States Congress--the House of Representatives in particular--to stand up in defense of the Constitution, in defense not just as might seem most apparent here, a defense of the Second Amendment which this most certainly is, but, in fact, a defense of separation of powers, that, in fact, it is not the executive branch that makes law.…”