Political Quotes

“I first want to begin by thanking the chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security of the Committee on Appropriations and the chairman of the full Appropriations Committee, the gentlemen from Texas and Kentucky, for their excellent work on this legislation. It is important that we pass it, and it is important that we use the power of the purse in this process to stop the President's unconstitutional actions. President Obama has embarked on some of the biggest executive power grabs in American history by unilaterally rewriting our Nation's immigration laws. These actions ignore the will of the American people who voted in November to change the way Washington operates, and these actions flout the United States Constitution. They must be ended because these policies threaten the separation of powers between Congress and the executive branch and violate President Obama's obligation to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Congress must fight to stop these unconstitutional actions from being implemented, and today, the House of Representatives is doing just that. We will consider amendments to this bill that will stop President Obama's executive overreach in its tracks. Two of the amendments will completely defund President Obama's executive power grabs. One offered by Representatives Robert Aderholt, Mick Mulvaney, and Lou Barletta will defund the President's new deferred action program for over 4 million unlawful alien parents.…”