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Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is being cheered by conservatives for the floor speech he delivered yesterday on HR 4138 which passed by a vote of 233 to 181. President Obama has threatened to veto the bill, which would “authorize the House or Senate to sue the executive branch for not enforcing laws and provide an expedited process through federal district courts.”
Gowdy used President Obama’s own words against him, quoting from then-Senator Obama:
“These past few years we’ve seen an unacceptable abuse of power. Having a president whose priority is expanding his own power. ”
“No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as a co-equal branch the Constitution made it.”
“I taught the Constitution for ten years. I believe in the Constitution.”
“One of the most important jobs of the Supreme Court is to guard against the encroachment of the Executive Branch on the power of the other branches. And I think the Chief Justice has been a little too eager to give an administration, whether it’s mine or George Bush’s, more power than the Constitution originally intended.”
He went on to ask what’s changed. “How does going from a Senator to a President rewrite the Constitution? What’s different from when he was a Senator?”
He went on to say that the remedy for a lawless President is to take him to court. “If a President does not faithfully execute the law what are our remedies? … The remedy is to do exactly what Barack Obama said to do. To go to court, to go to the Supreme Court. And have the Supreme Court say once and for all we don’t pass suggestions in this body, we don’t pass ideas, we pass laws. And we expect them to be faithfully executed.”
Heck, Obama isn’t even faithfully executing the laws he signed.
Any Senator or Congressman who missed the speech should watch this video and take notes.