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




                        CHIEF IGNORER OF THE LAW

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker:

       With respect to the notion that I can just suspend 
     deportations through executive order, that's just not the 
     case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has 
     passed.

  Mr. Speaker, that was President Obama a year ago. But that was then 
and this is now.
  On Friday, the administration issued an imperial decree, acting to 
unilaterally ignore portions of the immigration law of the land. Mr. 
Speaker, the last time I checked, it was Congress who makes law, not 
the President. And it is the job of the Executive to enforce laws, not 
ignore the ones he just doesn't like.
  The President has no interest in fixing the broken immigration 
system. Instead, he has decreed this temporary amnesty in hopes of 
winning votes in November. He doesn't like the constitutional process 
for law-making because it just gets in his way, so he acts like an 
emperor instead of a President.
  It's time for the former constitutional professor to read the 
Constitution.
  And that's just the way it is.

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