[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 128]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           PRESIDENT OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE ACTION ON GUN CONTROL

  (Mr. WEBER of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WEBER of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak out against the 
proposed executive assault--I mean action--on our Second Amendment 
rights. The President has yet again overstepped, has fired off another 
round, and has taken dead aim at the Second Amendment. It is time 
Congress takes dead aim at his lawlessness.
  We have three branches of government for a reason, and one branch 
cannot continue to unilaterally act. It is tyrannical, and it erodes 
the foundation of this great Nation: our Constitution.
  Mr. Speaker, it is very curious to me that the President, who doesn't 
want his background checked into--his birth certificate, his school 
records, or his college grades--wants an anti-Second Amendment 
intrusion into actual Americans' backgrounds.
  When is this administration going to realize that denying Americans 
their constitutional right to carry won't prevent bad people from doing 
bad things? It simply ensures criminals a safe path to crime.
  That is how I see it. Lord help us last over these next 12 months.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Once again, Members are reminded not to 
engage in personalities toward the President.

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