Quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell yesterday i joined congressional leaders in awarding three congressional gold medals to the memory of thousands of men and women who perished so tragically on this very day 13 years ago. Every american that morning bore witness to terrible tragedy and suffering. But that wasnt all we witnessed. We also saw incredible acts of bravery and compassion and heroism. We saw it in a great city. We saw it on the edge of the capitol. We heard about it high above the clouds. Sacrifices of those heroes of 9 11 inspired us then, and they inspire us now. In memory of every man and woman who perished so tragically that day continues to serve as a Unifying Force for our nation, and we will never stop honoring them. Mr. President , on an entirely different matter, the Am
Ive learned quite a lot. I, too, w like to associate as myself with the remarks of our chair about how enraged i think we all are when we hear some of the things that weve heard today. I think that just leads us all want to go forth and make sure we do everything we can to cooperate with you to minimize these issues that are out there, if not eliminate them entirely, and i do agree, too, that the role of the internet no doubt has been really important in magnifying the problem multiplying the problem perhaps in many instances, too, so thanks for being here today and i want to thank the chair again for having this hearing. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Ryan, thank you again for being here. We really appreciate your leadership. Appreciate your commitment to this country and our kids. We join you in that effort, and we look forward to continuing our relationship in that dialogue you spoke of and doing everything we can so that families can build better lives for themselves. With that, se
Programs that you otherwise actually support. In fact, those are more drastic remedies, and frankly they wont remedy the problem. They wont force the executive to faithfully execute the laws. If all you want is congress is for the executive to faithfully execute your laws, peaceful judicial resolution may be the most tailored and appropriate response. So all of this reveals a glaring deficiency in those who criticize the committees draft resolution. States can sue to preserve their power. The executive branch it sue to preserve its power but somehow magically congress cant. I guess under this logic congress is some sort of institutional orphan thats uniquely incapable of being injured enough to establish standing to sue. The absurdity of that position is belied by extensive case law that recognizes that subdivisions of congress in the form of committees have standing to assert institutional injury caused by the executive branch. These cases, most of which have been litigated here in th
That unless, quote, an agency has adopted a general policy thats so extreme as to amount to an abdomen occasion of its statutory responsibilities. Neither are regulatory delays implementing the employer mandate an affront to the constitution. I think we should take a look at the text of the take care clause. Particularly, the words faithfully and even more striking phrase, take care. The framers could have prescribed simply that the president execute the laws and the legislative history of the constitution shows that they deliberately chose not to do this. Why did they add the words faithfully and especially take care . Defining the president s obligation in this fashion seems to me incorporates that the concept that the president s duty is to execute laws in good faith and to exercise reasonable care in doing so. Scholars concur that this phrasing is that exercise judgment and handle his enforcement duties with fidelity to all laws and the entire law that hes enforcing, the entire aca
Here, were not suing the president because he lied about weapons of mass destruction and brought us into a war where thousands of americans were killed and almost bankrupted our treasury. Were not suing because of some sort of deal to Exchange Arms for hostages. Were focused in on a narrow provision of the Affordable Care act, i guess, because we havent seen the exact lawsuit theyre going to file. Im just trying to figure out, if everything goes the way they want it to then they get a judge to hear it and it gets all the approvals they want, what is success . What is the end of all this . What do they get . Someone explain to me what happens if they win. As i said earlier, mr. Mcgovern, any victory was likely to come before the grace period had expired for business in any event, but sorry, after the grace period ended. Thank you. But in a larger sense, the theory of standing here, that theres an institutional injury in one house of the congress. If an executive administration in admini