[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 103 (Thursday, July 18, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H4606-H4607]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 CONGRESS MUST ENFORCE THE CONSTITUTION

  (Mr. PITTENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTENGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge the Senate to join 
the House of Representatives in taking immediate action to delay the 
employer and individual health care mandates.
  President Obama has conceded that Americans are not ready for

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ObamaCare with its unworkable mandates and negative effects on the 
economy, so now President Obama does not have the authority to pick and 
choose which parts of the law to enforce or to ignore. His 
constitutional duty is to execute law as it is since the original 
ObamaCare legislation was passed by both Houses of a Democrat-
controlled Congress. If the Senate fails to approve these delays, they 
will be allowing President Obama to sidestep the Constitution.
  Mr. Speaker, we cannot allow President Obama to continue ignoring the 
Constitution. Congress is required to act. Law cannot be changed by a 
monarch via a blog post. We need to help the American people by 
delaying these unworkable mandates. In June, a report showed that we 
had lost 240,000 full-time jobs in this country. In North Carolina, 
they reported that health care premiums will go up 284 percent. The 
American people deserve better.

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