{"id":21179,"date":"2014-07-31T13:10:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21179"},"modified":"2014-07-31T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:10:44","slug":"house-passes-bill-to-sue-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21179\/house-passes-bill-to-sue-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Bill to Sue Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives made history today when it passed a bill<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-house-votes-to-sue-obama-20140730-story.html \" target=\"_blank\"> allowing Congress to sue the President of the United States<\/a> for failing to implement a federal law, reports the L.A. Times.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation authorizes House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to file suit in federal court demanding that President Barack Obama enforce ObamaCare\u2019s employer mandate, which requires companies with 50 or more full-time workers to purchase ObamaCare-compliant health insurance or pay a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans have been critical of President Obama\u2019s unilateral delays in enforcing the mandate \u2013 now scheduled to go into effect in 2016 \u2013 because it spares Democrats and the Obama administration substantial political pain. If the law is so great, Republicans reason, then it should go into full effect.<\/p>\n<p>As with other anti-ObamaCare measures to pass the House, this bill has virtually no chance of clearing the Senate where Democrats are in the majority. Still, it\u2019s very presence helps Republicans draw a clearer contrast over where each party stands on the rule of law; in particular the president\u2019s ability to pick-and-choose which parts of a statute he will \u2013 as he swore upon taking office \u2013 to faithfully execute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives made history today when it passed a bill allowing Congress to sue the President of the United States for failing to implement a federal law, reports the L.A. Times. The legislation authorizes House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to file suit in federal court demanding that President Barack Obama enforce ObamaCare\u2019s employer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,4014,4192,615,3308,185,1057,1009,35],"class_list":["post-21179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-care","tag-employer","tag-gop","tag-health","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-john-boehner","tag-mandate","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21186,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions\/21186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}