On the recordDecember 11, 2013
as we continue this week's vote-arama on executive branch nominations, I wish to remind the American people how we got here today and what it means to the future of our great country and our system of government. Over the last 5 years President Obama and his administration have repeatedly bent the law to serve their own purposes in a way that I think is unprecedented in my experience. We saw this when he gave special treatment to union pension funds during the Chrysler bankruptcy process. We saw it again during the Solyndra bankruptcy. We saw it when President Obama unilaterally announced a moratorium on the enforcement of certain immigration laws. We saw it when the administration unilaterally issued waivers from the 1996 Welfare Reform Act and the 2002 No Child Left Behind law. And, of course, we have seen it multiple times with the President's signature legislative--accomplishment, if you can call it that--ObamaCare, which effectively became a law that means whatever the President wants it to mean. Indeed, without any real legal authority, the administration has unilaterally delayed the employer mandate, unilaterally delayed the income verification required in the ObamaCare exchanges, unilaterally delayed the cap on out-of- pocket expenses, and has unilaterally delayed other insurance regulations.…
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