The Honorable Donna F. Edwards
Providing for Consideration of H. Res. 676,
Authorization to Initiate Litigation for Action by the President
July 30, 2014
Mr. Speaker, just when we think the level of dysfunction by the Republican majority in this House can’t get any worse, no, they surprise us and find a way to prove us wrong. They are going to cap off 7 months, Mr. Speaker, of the worst do-nothing Congress in this Nation’s history, and Republicans have now decided to chart a dangerous and unprecedented path by suing the President of the United States. The American people have to hear this. Suing the President of the United States, Mr. Speaker. And for what? Because the President is doing his job?
So when House Republicans are not doing their jobs, they choose to sue the President of the United States. And the American people do see this for exactly what it is.
So we move from one political stunt to the next, Mr. Speaker, from shutting down the government – that is what Republicans did – to a lawsuit, and then onward to impeachment. This do-nothing Congress, Mr. Speaker, suing the President of the United States.
We should be working to make college more affordable, to enact comprehensive immigration reform, equal pay for equal work, raise the minimum wage, renew unemployment benefits, and improve the Nation’s infrastructure. And instead, House Republicans are suing the President.
I thought this was a fringe element, Mr. Speaker, of the House Republican majority, but it is not. It is the majority. But somehow, Republicans in the House of Representatives – you know what? We get it. The Republicans in the House don’t like the President. They don’t like the President, Mr. Speaker. But they are suing the President of the United States.
Shame, shame, shame.