[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11725-11726]
[From the U.S. 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 
ObamaCare with its unworkable mandates and negative effects on the 
economy, so now President Obama does not

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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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