[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13628]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                REPUBLICAN LAWSUIT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, with just 2 days left until the Congress 
leaves for a 5-week recess, I rise today to urge my colleagues to take 
the little time we have left to address the issues that are most 
important to the American people.
  As we speak, Republicans in Congress are wasting taxpayer money and 
time on a lawsuit against the President. Over what? Because they 
disagree with his political ideology. From the very day he was elected, 
the Republicans have been determined to delegitimize this President, 
even at the cost of their constituents not receiving their unemployment 
insurance extension and other things. What is it, Mr. Speaker, about 
this President that will have our colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle resort to anything to delegitimize him?
  He is the President of the United States, elected by the majority of 
the people in this Nation. And I say that he should be respected, as 
every other President in this great Nation has been.

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