On Dec. 19, the Obama administration made its 14th change to Obamacare without requesting congressional action to make the amendments. Such a move is precisely why an effort is underway in the House of Representatives to sue President Obama and force him to abide by constitutional restraints.
The measure is known as the Stop This Overreaching Presidency, or STOP, Act and is sponsored by freshman Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C. He told WND this is about abiding by the Constitution.
âArticle II, Section 3, requires the president to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. Everybodyâs bound by the law, including the president. He is not exempt,â Rice said. âIf a president is allowed to pick and choose which laws he wishes to enforce, it creates tremendous opportunities for wrongdoing.
âWhat would we say if the next president who came in decided he didnât like Obamacare and he wasnât going to enforce any part of it? What would we say if a president decided he wasnât going to enforce the maximum bracket on the income tax, or wasnât going to enforce the income tax on his political friends? Of course, those things wouldnât be tolerated,â Rice said. âWeâve got a similar type of lines going on here with Obamacare. Weâve got the president giving 1,300 exemptions. Weâve got him waiving the employer mandate for businesses but applying the individual mandate for the common conservative. Itâs not right. The law has got to be applied uniformly.â
