[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12722]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CONSTITUTIONAL CHECKS AND BALANCES

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, the House is considering a lawsuit to stop the 
President from unilaterally rewriting the ObamaCare statute. Some have 
criticized the lawsuit by saying that if House Republicans are opposed 
to the ObamaCare individual mandate, why are they suing President Obama 
for delaying that mandate?
  The Constitution requires that if the President wants to change a 
law, he must come to Congress to ask for a change. He did not do that 
in this case, even though House Republicans agreed with the underlying 
change. The case is about following constitutional process.
  Another objection is that President Obama has not issued as many 
executive orders as other Presidents, but the issue is not the number 
of executive orders, but the impact of the executive orders.
  This lawsuit is about constitutional governance, not politics. We 
must maintain the checks and balances established by the Constitution.

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