Washington – House Republicans took the initial step on Thursday to sue President Barack Obama over the administration’s decision to delay the employer mandate of the health care law.
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Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced that Republicans had released a draft resolution that would authorize the House to file suit amid GOP criticism that the president has declined to faithfully execute the laws of the country.
“In 2013, the president changed the health care law without a vote of Congress, effectively creating his own law by literally waiving the employer mandate and the penalties for failing to comply with it,” Boehner said in a statement. “That’s not the way our system of government was designed to work. No president should have the power to make laws on his or her own.”
The House Rules Committee has scheduled a hearing on the resolution next week, with a House vote later this month.
Obama has called the GOP effort a “stunt” and criticized lawmakers for inaction on legislation such as a stalled bill to overhaul the nation’s immigration system.
Boehner’s actions on the lawsuit come as some Republicans are demanding a far more formidable step — impeachment.
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and others have called for Obama’s impeachment. Boehner said Thursday that he disagrees with those calls, but asserts that others can make a determination on their own whether the chief executive deserves it.
Even if he has a case, which is doubtful; why waste time with this nourishkeit instead of actually passing legislation to help the nation?
The republicans are always busy pursuing unattainable goals and declaring major proclamations but without any results….. They have to unite their many competing factions and only then wage a battle against the Dems
IMPEACH him – he did many more things against the law than Richard Nixon.
“IMPEACH him – he did many more things against the law than Richard Nixon.”
You mean like being black, don’t you, Cletus?
While Obama’s actions were a clear violation of the law, This is a waste of time. It’s all about partisan politics. The Dems will allow Obama to do whatever he wants.
here’s one new one :
MCALLEN, Texas—Illegal aliens are being allowed to fly on commercial airliners without valid identification, according to the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). “The aliens who are getting released on their own recognizance are being allowed to board and travel commercial airliners by simply showing their Notice to Appear forms,” NBPC’s Local 2455 Spokesman, Hector Garza, told Breitbart Texas.