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What is that all about? >> the funding of obamacare. there are new questions being raised add finding hhs secretary kathleen sebelius may be scrounge up private donations to keep promoting the website. bill: the president accused of going around congress and shaping the law the way he want it. >> the president need to come to congress and make the case to congress on the policy merits and then its up to the congress to act. its not up to the president to make this the law by the stroke of the ex...

>> okay, so on the merits, if the companys need flexibilities, then the solution is not to ignore the law to pretend that the law allows this sort of thing to happen. the solution is for the president to come to congress and make the case to congress on the policy merits of this question that congress needs to act. and then its up to congress to act at that point. it is not the presidents prerogative to simply make this the law by the stroke of the executive pen. >> senator lee, congressman bece...

Senator. a lot has been made of president obama promising to use his executive pen and phone, whatever that means -- not sure -- and you pushed back on that. i believe theres new news you plan to introduce legislation make sure that you can overturn executive action. can you explain that? >> we have something called the restoration of separation of powers. separation of powers is something our founding fathers intended to have checks and balances, and the president seems to think not only is he ...

Point he doesnt think we need to do this, they can do it piecemeal. theyre going to lose their base and when they lose their base, they will not win. >> will you run third party candidates against them in november? >> i mean, were not running any third party candidates, but there are going to be primary challenges, i mean, leading up to november. not only in the senate but in the house. >> let me ask you something. because the presidents whole point about the executive pen, im fascinated. becaus...

Benefitting right now and there will be millions more, and then well have a constituency. >> if you have a republican senate and a republican in the white house, you can do away with it. >> what are you going to do with it? >> hes saying it would be unpopular because people are relying on it. fwl something you said earlier, he used the executive pen to allow 800,000 immigrants to have amnesty. >> it wasnt amnesty. >> of course, it is. >> its for college students who -- >> earned their right to s...

On the eve of the state of the union address, news leaked that president obama will deliver on a promise he made recently. the president will announce tonight that he intends to use the executive pen to raise the minimum wage for contractors hired by the u.s. taxpayer. nicely done, sir. but werent you the guy against the executive pen before you were for it? roll it. >> the issue of executive power and executive privilege is one that is subject to abuse. and in an obama presidency, what you will...

And -- thats why people still like him. >> because hes likable. >> his job ratings are -- >> and hes really good at reading the teleprompter. >> its not just that. >> thats why hes so likable, when its a prepared speech. the big sound bite everyone is talking about is president obama has now said over the past couple days, i have a pen and i have a phone. meaning im going to use the executive pen, the executive order to get what he wants done in the last three years of his presidency. the proble...

Transportation, the effect on businesses, small businesses in particular, who dont really have a big voice in washington, the national federation of independent business put out a video earlier yesterday, which i thought was very good, talking about the strangulation of small business at the expense of unelected bureaucrats, and congress needs to get something done. the president is making a mistake when he thinks he couldnt do something on the minimum wage. he should have at least tried it in c...

Benefitting right now and there will be millions more, and then well have a constituency. >> if you have a republican senate and a republican in the white house, you can do away with it. >> what are you going to do with it? >> hes saying it would be unpopular because people are relying on it. fwl something you said earlier, he used the executive pen to allow 800,000 immigrants to have amnesty. >> it wasnt amnesty. >> of course, it is. >> its for college students who -- >> earned their right to s...

By the way, hes going to take -- take things like gay rights, the environment and other special interest groups down the road as well. hes promised us hes going to do that. when other presidents used the executive pen like should we lower the flag at half when somebody dies. when president obama uses it he changes the way america does business. that pen in his hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever. >> three more years to use it. lets hope i...