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Democrats say he is only doing what every president has done in the past. the president delayed the employer mandate giving medium sized companies another year to comply with obamacare. the mandate for larger companies pushed back one year. all of this without congressional action to change the health care law. and some claim the president is violating the constitution. >> this is a shameless act, shameless power grab designed to help the president and his political party achieve a particular outcome. and that's wrong. look, the constitution doesn't give the president that power. the power bel...

Senator lee said that is not possible because you don't have damage done here. in fact, the businesses effected are getting reprieve from taxes. so there is no technical damage done there. what is your perspective on that? >> well, that's a good point because standing for whoever brings the lawsuit is the case. and, in fact, the person who has agreed here is the employer who has 100 employees. they are not getting the delay. the guy who has 99 employees gets the delay. the guy with 100 says that is not fair. the guy with 100 is required by obamacare to do what he is required to do. he may not ...

Asked something that obamacare does not give them the authority to do. the constitution provides that it is the congress that legislates, not the president. >> mr. chairman, nevertheless, mr. obama is not the only president to make these unilateral actions executive orders. on the spectrum of executive orders he ranks fairly low. previous presidents made more of them. what makes this different? >> well, this is a massive new change for americans in terms of the health care they are going to be provided. as you know virtually every republican in the house and senate has voted to repeal obamacar...