On the recordMarch 17, 2016
I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, the argument we are making today is that this President has a repeated history of needing to have his actions resolved through the court system. The Supreme Court has acted over 13 times to rule against the Obama administration. This President is an activist President that works around the legislature. As a matter of fact, even Members of this body have implicated that they don't even know who their White House contacts are. We have repeatedly tried to work with the President. We hold hearings. They ignore and rebuff the things that we do. They disallow what are considered to be normal rules of law. So this is an action that has been brought by the States, not by the United States Congress. We were simply asked to give an opinion, and that is what we are doing today. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Byrne) one of our bright, new members of the Rules Committee.
