Hensarling: Obamacare Ruling Seriously Undermines Constitution

Statement

Congressman Jeb Hensarling (TX-05), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Obama Administration in King v. Burwell:

"While the question in King v. Burwell was who could receive exchange subsidies, this case was really about the limits of executive power under our Constitution. For over 200 years, the United States has been a nation founded upon the rule of law. And while I have not liked nor agreed with every decision from the Supreme Court, I found today's decision especially outrageous. By legalizing the Obama Administration's decision to completely disregard the law as written by Congress because it better suited the administration's agenda, the Supreme Court has essentially vested legislative powers to the executive branch -- seriously undermining our Constitution and transforming us further into a nation governed by the rule of rulers.

"This decision also leaves Americans trapped in Obamacare's failed top-down, one-size-fits-all approach of mandates, subsidies, and broken promises that has led to Americans having to pay more for lower quality health care that is less accessible -- often being forced out of the health care plans they like and no longer able to see the health care provider of their choice.

"With this decision now firmly established in Supreme Court jurisprudence, I fear that this administration or any future administration now has more latitude than ever to carry out the law it wanted from Congress, regardless of what actually was passed by the people's elected representatives."

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