- Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:08 am
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With 12 days left in the legislative period, House Speaker John Boehner (R) has concluded that Congress’ time will be best spent pursuing a lawsuit against the Obama administration for a waiver it issued over a year ago relating to the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate.
Talk of suing the president over his use of executive action has been circulating since June, but until this week the speaker had not indicated which executive order he would be challenging specifically. On Thursday Boehner’s office released a draft resolution, revealing that the lawsuit’s charges will target the Obamacare waivers that the administration issued in response to concerns that employers lacked sufficient time to comply with one of the Act’s provisions.
The Act’s requirement that all employers with more than 50 employees provide coverage to their workers was neither dropped nor altered; however, to give businesses the time they needed to adjust to the shift, the Obama administration said it would delay enforcement of that requirement until 2015. The administration later granted a second delay, giving businesses employing between 50 and 99 workers until 2016 to comply. Initially, delay in enforcement of these provisions was welcome by members of both parties, as well as the business community. Republicans now contend that the President’s action was over-reaching by the executive branch and a usurpation of the legislative authority of Congress.
Boehner’s lawsuit comes at a time of peak pressure from GOP members urging Congress to check Obama’s use of power. Early this week, former Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin joined a number of conservative voices calling for President Obama’s impeachment. She told Sean Hannity of Fox News on Tuesday, “The tipping point in this drive toward impeachment for me has been the illegal immigration issue.” Her call-to-arms op-ed piece has gotten over 21,000 comments since it was posted on Tuesday. On Hannity, she accused the Republicans in Congress of not having “the cojones” to impeach the president.
Democrats don't seem to take such a threat very seriously. Former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell (D) said on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation on Wednesday, “The constitution says you can impeach the president for high crimes and misdemeanors. There is nothing President Obama has done that is remotely close to a high crime or a misdemeanor.”
With 12 days left in the legislative period, House Speaker John Boehner (R) has concluded that Congress’ time will be best spent pursuing a lawsuit against the Obama administration for a waiver it issued over a year ago relating to the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate.
Talk of suing the president over his use of executive action has been circulating since June, but until this week the speaker had not indicated which executive order he would be challenging specifically. On Thursday Boehner’s office released a draft resolution, revealing that the lawsuit’s charges will target the Obamacare waivers that the administration issued in response to concerns that employers lacked sufficient time to comply with one of the Act’s provisions.
The Act’s requirement that all employers with more than 50 employees provide coverage to their workers was neither dropped nor altered; however, to give businesses the time they needed to adjust to the shift, the Obama administration said it would delay enforcement of that requirement until 2015. The administration later granted a second delay, giving businesses employing between 50 and 99 workers until 2016 to comply. Initially, delay in enforcement of these provisions was welcome by members of both parties, as well as the business community. Republicans now contend that the President’s action was over-reaching by the executive branch and a usurpation of the legislative authority of Congress.
Boehner’s lawsuit comes at a time of peak pressure from GOP members urging Congress to check Obama’s use of power. Early this week, former Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin joined a number of conservative voices calling for President Obama’s impeachment. She told Sean Hannity of Fox News on Tuesday, “The tipping point in this drive toward impeachment for me has been the illegal immigration issue.” Her call-to-arms op-ed piece has gotten over 21,000 comments since it was posted on Tuesday. On Hannity, she accused the Republicans in Congress of not having “the cojones” to impeach the president.
Democrats don't seem to take such a threat very seriously. Former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell (D) said on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation on Wednesday, “The constitution says you can impeach the president for high crimes and misdemeanors. There is nothing President Obama has done that is remotely close to a high crime or a misdemeanor.”
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