[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9190]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           PRESIDENT OBAMA CREATES MORE CHAOS AND UNCERTAINTY

  (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, on Friday, the administration showed it is 
less concerned with supporting policies that will put millions of 
unemployed Americans back to work and instead has decided to go in an 
entirely new direction. Unilateral changes in law that have been done 
for political expediency put individuals ahead of the 12.5 million 
people who have been seeking work for the past 3\1/2\ years.
  Mr. Speaker, the administration has produced an executive order that 
is a political decision--purely political--and one that will continue 
to block opportunities for American citizens trying to find employment.
  Prosecutorial discretion is what we heard this was. This is not 
prosecutorial discretion. Prosecutorial discretion means you decide 
whether or not to prosecute an individual for a crime they may or may 
not have committed. What this is is new policy, new policy that is 
being implemented by the administration unilaterally--no respect for 
the people's House, no respect for the United States Congress, no 
respect for the legislative branch. Instead, prosecutorial discretion 
now has morphed into, well, we'll provide you a work permit good for 2 
years that's renewable for 2 years.
  This administration has a history of picking winners and losers. This 
time it's got to stop. This Congress needs to stand up to this 
administration starting today.

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