[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 130]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         THERE IS NO BURGER KING PROVISION IN THE CONSTITUTION

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the administration blames the violence 
in America on gun dealers and Congress. So the administration is going 
to issue some more executive memos and unilaterally ignore the Second 
Amendment.
  Never mind that the administration's illegal action would not have 
prevented any of the tragic mass shootings in recent years. The 
administration should be prosecuting criminals who use guns, not 
vetoing the Second Amendment.
  The administration's executive action on gun control is just the 
latest example of the White House attempting to bypass the Constitution 
and the legislative branch to implement a political agenda.
  The Constitution does not have a Burger King provision for the 
executive branch. The President cannot have it his way. Laws are 
written by Congress. The executive is to enforce the law, and the 
former constitutional professor should know better than to dictate new 
law, regardless of whether he thinks it is a good idea or not.
  The administration's edict granting of executive amnesty has already 
been ruled unconstitutional by lower courts, but it seems that the 
administration won't let the Constitution get in the way of political 
expediency.
  And that is just the way it is.

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