it, any president going around congress to this extent. if you were going around congress to rewrite law, that would be different than trying to use the flexibility you re given by the congress to execute the law. the president is not trying to rewrite and never said i m going it alone, the president said i m going to work with congress, but where congress decides not to act, remember, this is perhaps the greatest do-nothing congress we have seen. we have a republican speaker who said he will not he will be the brick wall that will not permit the president to act. so the president is trying to implement the law. when the health care law says the employer mandate shall begin after december 31st, 2013, isn t that pretty specific? it will begin after december 2013. the president said, we ll start it off 2013, but we ll make sure it works well for small businesses. and the fact that what he s trying to do is make things work, when congress can t pass bills, when congress shuts down
united states. meantime this morning, republican senator mike leigh and xavier becerra faced off on the decision delaying portions of obamacare. this is a shameless act, a shameless power grab that is designed to help the president and his political party achieve a particular outcome in a partisan election. if this were against the competition, someone would have been sued by now and the president would have had to stop. today on meet the press, mitt romney talked about hillary clinton s potential presidential run. well, i don t think bill clinton is as relevant as hillary clinton if hillary clinton decides to run for president. i think her record is what will be judged upon, not the record of her husband. let s bring in lynn sweet and beth fewy. how relevant is former president bill clinton to a hillary
democrats say he is only doing what every president has done in the past. the president delayed the employer mandate giving medium sized companies another year to comply with obamacare. the mandate for larger companies pushed back one year. all of this without congressional action to change the health care law. and some claim the president is violating the constitution. this is a shameless act, shameless power grab designed to help the president and his political party achieve a particular outcome. and that s wrong. look, the constitution doesn t give the president that power. the power belongs to the people. the people delegate that power to their senators and congressmen. the troubled affordable care act has given an issue going to mid term elections. democrats say the law is working, billions are eligible
rewrites of the law are legal. we ve never seen a president who takes the view if he disagrees with the federal law, he can ignore it or refuse to enforce it, or he can just unilaterally change it. can president obama change obamacare without going back to congress? we ll ask republican mike lee of the senate judiciary committee. and congressman javisarajevo xa bacerra. and we also have someone who stays he ll astound our panel lists. all that s right now on fox news sunday. hello again from fox news in washington. when new jersey s chris christie spoke in chicago this week, democrats sent a former governor to act as a truth squad. when paper from one of hillary clinton i closest friends were uncovered creating a fuss on
discretion. and it provides the flexibility that the small business owner would like to have. senator lee, congressman becerra persuades you? not at all. this is a shameless act, a shameless power-grab designed to help the president and his political party achieve a particular outcome in a partisan election. and that s wrong. look, the constitution doesn t give the president duck power. this power belongs to the people. the people delegate that power to their senators and to their congressmen. they don t give it to the president to act unilaterally and there s good reason for that. the whole reason we have the constitution is to help prevent, to protect us against the excessive concentration of power in the hands of a few or here in the hands of one person. and sir, we have 30 seconds, senator, i m sorry to interrupt. 30 seconds left. on the merits, what about the argument, well, the companies need flexibility?