for letting its power be leached away. jefferson, boone s companion, james madison, we see throughout our system the policy of supplying by opposite and rival interest the defect of better motives, that is, the men with the motives, each institution is supposed to defend itself. they are supposed to be rivals, and the congress has been a weak rival of the executive, and it s time to stand up. here is congressman trey gowdy doing his best defense. this bill simply gives us standing when our votes are nullified. this bill allows us to petition the judicial branch for an order requiring the executive branch to faithfully execute the law. mr. speaker, we are not held in high public esteem right now. maybe members of congress would be respected more if we respected ourselves enough to
enforce the alien and sedition act so presidents have done this traditionally since world war ii. it s totally out of hand. now i profoundly disagree with juan. it is not the number of executive orders signed by the president, it s those executive orders which intrude into the province of the law-making branch which is the congress. the president of the united states said to 11 million illegal immigrants, hey, do, a, b, c, d, and, e, i won t deport you. where d did he get that from, he made it up so instead of enforcing the law he s telling 11 million people how to avoid obeying the law. i think i reached the tipping point with senator feinstein of california, the dramatic change on enough is enough with the spying will cause the congress, i believe, to begin to take back power that it has been ceding to presidents since the new deal. that s precisely it. the congress is at fault here. yes. for doing nothing.
example of executive overreach. candidate obama said he wasn t going to do signing statements, if you remember, running in the race in 2007. what do you think, juan? i mean, do you think that there has been an executive overreach in this administration? well, i just look at the hard numbers, as george said. you see republicans and democrats do it, and if you look at the analysis you would see that president obama in fact doesn t even come close to what george w. bush did in terms of executive orders and certainly not what bill clinton did. i don t think he has half of the executive issues that bill clinton did, so the bigger point here is i think you re in a unique moment where the republicans have had a successful strategy of obstruction. they just don t want to work with the guy. they stop everything. i think it s a do-nothing congress. the question is should this president then cede his power because they have undermined him horshould he in fact show some gumption to say i m try
investigators try to answer the biggest question of them all. what happened to flight 370? chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has our lead story tonight. sources say u.s. investigators have not fully discounted the possibility the jet flew for several hours after the transponder went dark and data, including signals data, transmitted by the aircraft is being evaluated in that light. asked about the possibility, the white house spokesman suggested it was under consideration. it s my understanding that based on some new information, that s not necessarily conclusive, but new information, an additional search area may be opened in the indian ocean, and we re consulting with international partners about the appropriate assets to deploy. the malaysian authorities were quick to dismiss the report first carried in the wall street journal, that u.s. investigators were considering the jet was diverted, quote, with the intention of using it later for another pu
0 they were to increase a couple of points. he wrote, so let s forget about the rich and ultra rich going on strike and stuffing their ample funds under their mattresses if, gasp, capital gaines rates and yord nan income rates are increased. the ultra rich, including me, will forever pursue investment opportunities. why is there such a hang-up even to the point that republicans have signals willingness to find revenue in other places as lodge as they do not actually increase the rates? i think the hang-up is broader than that. and what mr. buffet is asking for simplicity. as far as investors go, they simply want things to be resolved because again unless there s clarity in the future, you re just not going to see much happening. as i mentioned before, why don t you see more ceos doing more business? there are many who wrote to the president before the election begging resolution because until we see action and growth out of these companies, not much is going to happen and when that d