Obamacare

Floor Speech

Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, yesterday we heard yet another empty promise from the President that, by fiat, he can delay provisions of law under ObamaCare that have already cost a staggering 5 million Americans their health insurance.

Now, notice that he has not changed the law. He has simply said that he will ignore the law, and he invites health insurers to do the same.

This is a constitutional abomination. We live in a nation of laws and not of men. The principal constitutional responsibility of the President is to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. If a law is bad, we change that law. We don't ignore it.

As a practical matter, the President's announcement has no effect. Since the law hasn't changed, the criminal and civil liability that a health insurer would incur for disobeying it has not changed either.

The President has cruelly given people false hope while severely damaging the fundamental concept that separates democracy from despotism, the rule of law.

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