[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 517-518]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE RULE OF LAW

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, late last year we saw the President 
knowingly act to ignore Federal immigration law, claiming to grant 
legal status to millions who entered the country illegally--which looks 
a lot like amnesty to many Americans--an action done in complete 
defiance of our Nation's rule of law.
  This week the House will act to defund the President's plan. Some 
have claimed this plan is funded by fees and fines and that Congress 
can't prevent it. I have one answer for them:


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       No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in 
     consequence of appropriations made by law.

  These are words straight out of Article I, section 9 of the 
Constitution. There are no exceptions, no asterisks, and no fine print.
  The unilateral attacks on our rule of law and unprecedented power 
grabs from this President need to end. These measures included in H.R. 
240 are important steps in doing just that.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this legislation that 
will stop the President's executive overreach and defend the will of 
the American people.

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