WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, the House passed legislation to help enforce the separation of powers, by targeting areas of overreach by the executive branch and ensuring that the President faithfully executes the laws.  The Congresswoman released the following statement:

“While it’s not new for presidents to stretch their constitutional limits, executive overreach has accelerated in recent years, and President Obama continues to boast his ability to use his ‘pen and phone.’  For example, instead of working with Congress on my bill to provide relief for all Americans under his healthcare law, the President issued a veto threat.  However, days later, the president altered his own law through executive order for the fourteenth time, this time granting certain people an exemption from the individual mandate. How is it fair for the president to pick winners and losers that he sees fit without using the legislative process or the people elected to represent them?

“The legislative process requires consensus. President Obama needs to focus more on building relationships and working across the aisle, instead of issuing unilateral delays to the laws passed in Congress – especially by his own party. If Washington is ever going to regain the faith of the American people, we cannot allow any president to expand the constitutional limits.”

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