King: Imperial Presidency Week in the House

Press Release

Congressman Steve King released the following video statement in recognition of "Imperial Presidency Week" in the United States House of Representatives. Congressman King supported two bills the House passed this week: H.R. 4138, the Executive Needs to Faithfully Observe and Respect Congressional Enactments (ENFORCE) of the Law Act and H.R. 3973, the Faithful Execution of the Law Act.

"This week we have been focusing in the United States House of Representatives on Imperial Presidency. Barack Obama has violated our Constitution multiple times, he's overreached on the margins of the Constitution multiple times. Some of those examples would be the DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] language of the Morton Memos where he decided that he's simply going to bypass Congress and he's going to make up immigration law as he sees fit…

…The clearest Constitutional violation is when the President delayed the Employer Mandate of ObamaCare. He has no authority to do so. The law says "shall be implemented in each month after December of 2013.' The President just decided some months ago, "I'll wait another year and see how it looks…'

…So time after time we bring this up on the Floor of the House, and we have passed two pieces of legislation this week. One [ENFORCE the Law Act] of them grants standing to Congress so we can take him to court and ask the Judicial branch to be the referee between the Executive and Legislative branch of government. The other one [Faithful Execution of the Law Act] requires Eric Holder, Attorney General, who has pledged to uphold the Constitution and the Law just like the President, to announce to Congress when the President violates the Constitution or decides not to enforce a law…

…We are at a tipping point of Constitutional conviction here. The President is testing it beyond the limits of any President we have had. We've got to rein this in or our Country will fall apart from underneath."

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