[applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the kid institute. Let me also welcome our cspan audience. Im roger pilon, the director of the Kansas Center for constitutional studies and your host for todays Forum Working the publication of a new book by professor David Bernstein, lawless the Obama Administrations unprecedented assault on the constitution and the rule of law. This book in this form could not be more timely. This yesterday as we all know we witness the president said he was directing officials in his administration to expand the regulation of the Second Amendment rights of americans in several ways these repeated usurpations have served to divert attention from a long list of domestic and Foreign Policy disasters, but theyve also serve fortunately to direct our attention to the constitution into what are its bedrock principles, separation of powers. That will be our focus today as we canvassed the many constitutional assault
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , august 4, 2014. I hereby appoint the honorable thomas e. Petri to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. , ned, john a. Boehner speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend peter foaland, holy Trinity Catholic church, washington, d. C. The chaplain god of the unexpected, god who makes the weak strong, who makes the poor rich, who makes the dead alive again, dash our expectations as we begin this week of labor on behalf of the citizens of this country. Help us seek you, not in the familiar, but in the strange. Help us reach out to you, not in the comfortable but in the challenging. Help us realize your justice, not in the usual patterns that can shackle us, but in the new way you show us, the way that always frees us. Bless today the members an
Island when my father was recruited to work at a Textile Factory there. My parents, like the parents of those who might be eligible for deferred action under the president s executive authority, came here in pursuit of the American Dream for their children. Last month, president obama announced policy changes that bring muchneeded humanity and transparency to our immigration system. The president s actions are well within the scope of his authority. He is relying on the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion which you heard about which provides the department of Homeland Security as well as every Law Enforcement agencies in this country the authority to set enforcement priorities to target resources and to shape how the law will be implemented. The doctrine of prosecutorial discretion is well established with solid constitutional, legal and historical grounds. First, it is well settled in the courts that the executive officials have wide latitude in exercising this prosecutorial discreti