Mr. President. as the Appropriations Committees prepare to release the product of their negotiations on a spending bill this afternoon. I rise today to discuss the troubling development that has made their work all the more challenging: President Obamas immigration Executive order. By circumventing Congress. the President has dispensed with the dulyenacted law of the land in a unilateral attempt to alter the legal status of millions of immigrants. Unfortunately. this issue of Executive overreach is not a new one. Over the past year. I have come to the Senate floor repeatedly to lay out my objections to President Obamas lawlessnessfrom the release of Guantanamo detainees to ObamaCare. from his purported recess appointments to Benghazi. Today I come to discuss this latest astonishing instance in the area of immigration. Immigration is a complex and divisive issue. and Americans hold a wide variety of views on the matter. But one thing that should not be controversial is the Presidents duty to place fidelity to the Constitution over partisan politics. The Constitution vests lawmaking authority with Congress. not the President.
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