Billy Long: We must sue the president to defend the Constitution

(From Seventh District Congressman Billy Long)

U.S. Rep. Billy Long issued the following statement after voting for a resolution authorizing the House to take legal action against the administration due to its failure to enforce the president's health-care law as written:

"Justice, fairness, and equality require our laws be upheld consistently for all people no matter their political views, economic condition, nationality, or other superficial difference. Unfortunately, the president's conduct has not lived up to this standard. His IRS has targeted groups for harassment and denial of services based on their political orientation. Our nation's borders have been left open to millions of illegal immigrants because the president disagrees with our current immigration laws.

"The president and his administration have failed to enforce key components of his own signature achievement, the national health care law, and continue to act outside of the scope of the law to implement it because the law as written is unworkable. The lawsuit by the House of Representatives would seek to compel the president to enforce this train wreck of a law as written, not as the president wishes it had been written.

"The House is taking action to defend the Constitution. We are supposed to have three equal branches of government, but the Executive Branch has grown too strong and no longer feels it needs to listen to the Legislative Branch.