Washington – The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday cleared the way for the launch of a lawsuit accusing President Barack Obama of overstepping his authority in carrying out his signature healthcare law.
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The 225-201 vote, along party lines, to authorize the suit will allow House lawyers to draft legal documents over a five-week summer recess starting on Friday.
The planned lawsuit is expected to generate months of bitter campaign rhetoric from both Republicans and Democrats ahead of November elections that will determine the political control of Congress next year.
The suit is expected to claim that Obama, a Democrat, exceeded his executive authority in making unilateral changes to the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
Republicans argue that by delaying some healthcare coverage mandates and granting various waivers, he bypassed Congress in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Republicans have complained about other unilateral actions that Obama has taken to advance his agenda, from executive orders on immigration policy to same-sex partner benefits.
But they have narrowly focused the suit on the healthcare law because “it is the option most likely to clear the legal hurdles necessary to succeed,” said Republican Representative Pete Sessions of Texas, who chairs the House Rules Committee.
“This administration has effectively rewritten the law without following the constitutional process,” Sessions added.
Democrats have slammed the lawsuit effort as a politically motivated waste of taxpayer resources while Congress has failed to act on other pressing issues including emergency funding to deal with a flood of migrant children.
“This is a veiled attempt at impeaching the president,” said Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas.
A whole article about Obama unilaterally rewriting law, without a single example or fact to back it up.
What a bunch of clowns…by the time the courts get around to hearing this argument, Hillary will have been elected President and they can start a new lawsuit against her….Boner insists on demonstrating that he intends to show that he is a bigger joke than his Senate counterpart.
#1 if you need examples you obviously have not been following the news lately. as for the GOP it is all grandstanding. for if they really cared, all they have to do is not fund it in the senate and it is dead….even now…
I’m certainly not Obama’s biggest fan but this worthless congress needs to go back to school and learn how to get things done
“get real you know good and well he doesnt have the good of america in mind”
Unfortunately for our הימישער bigots such as you, being African American is not Constitutionally an impeachable offense for the President of the United States. All you Bagger (KKK) sympathizers are incapable of specifying exactly what President Obama has done wrong, so you repeat the vague and ambiguous dribble you hear from Limbaugh while eating lunch in your pickup trucks. Even though you’re not sufficiently smart, you should get three things into that thick skull of yours- he’s black, he’s President, and you ought to get a life already!