On the recordDecember 4, 2014
I thank the gentleman for his kindness. Mr. Speaker, if you want to recognize those individuals who have come here to do what is right and if you want to stop the siege of human trafficking, as I have said, where Houston is the epicenter of such, where we see it every day, where people are out of the shadows, if you want to do that, then you will vote against this misdirected law and you will read the constitutional dictates--first from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, then from the United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. United States--and understand that the President has the executive authority to do just what he has done, to be a moral keeper and to give discretion to the law. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule governing debate of H.R. 5759, the so-called ``Preventing Executive Overreach On Immigration Act,'' and the underlying bill. I oppose the rule and the underlying bill because it is nothing more than the Republican majority's latest partisan attack on the President and another diversionary tactic to avoid addressing the challenge posed by the nation's broken immigration system. Mr. Speaker, H.R.…
