[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 14, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H2578-H2579]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    SECRETARY SEBELIUS CONTINUES TO VIOLATE CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, the Constitution allows the Congress, 
specifically the House of Representatives, to hold the purse strings of 
the Federal Government--not the executive branch, not the Federal 
agencies.
  This week, we've heard reports that the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services has been calling executives

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from the industries that she regulates asking them to donate money to a 
group called ``Enroll America,'' a private organization that makes the 
President's health care law a success by signing individuals up for 
coverage through exchanges.
  The Antideficiency Act prohibits the Federal Government departments 
from making greater expenditures in a fiscal year than those provided 
by the Congress. So it begs the question: What is the Secretary 
promising to corporate executives in exchange for their funding of this 
ACA implementation? This continues the line of questionably ethical 
conduct by the Secretary all to further the administration's 
controversial agenda.
  Let's review: in 2012, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel concluded 
that Secretary Sebelius violated the Hatch Act by campaigning for 
President Obama while traveling on official business; then they raided 
the ACA's Prevention and Public Health Fund; and now she is seeking 
money from businesses that she regulates to prop up the President's 
takeover of American health care.

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