[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9191]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION FROM WHITE HOUSE ATTACKS

  (Mr. BROOKS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Speaker, last week Barack Obama unilaterally and 
unlawfully changed America's immigration law by ordering the Federal 
Government to accept illegal aliens' applications for work permits. I 
am deeply alarmed that America's President so blatantly undermines the 
rule of law.
  Article I, section 1 of our Constitution states:

       All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a 
     Congress of the United States.

  Article I, section 8 states:

       The Congress shall have the power to regulate commerce and 
     to establish a uniform rule of naturalization.

  Article II defines executive branch power. It does not give any 
President the power to make his own laws. In America, we elect 
Presidents, not Caesars. The only way to change America's immigration 
law is as our Constitution demands, through Congress, not by imperial 
decree. In America, no one, not even the President, is above the law. I 
urge Congress and all law-abiding Americans to protect our Constitution 
from White House attacks.


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will remind all Members to avoid 
personal references toward the President of the United States.

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