hould be protected president barack obama's record clear. al for his entire political life, he's strongly supported the full legalization of abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy, for any , including o reason sex selection throughout all pregnancy and forcing american taxpayers to pay for t, whether the taxpayers liked it or not. under barack obama, nearly nine million innocent, defenseless little american babies were ever saw thee they first smile of their mother. president obama was in the unique position perhaps among all other presidents in this country ng together to protect these helpless little children. most powerful human being in the world, mr. obama most o become the powerful enemy of the most in the human beings world. and nothing will stain his legacy or his claims of looking the little guy with more shame than going down in history the abortion president. mr. speaker, it gives me no out this record. i truly and sincerely hoped for god's best for barack obama when office. thatte him a letter hoping he would be remembe

we need a president like barack obama who abides by 100% of the rules. and we need a house majority that's willing to uphold the constitutional obligations 100% of the time. moving forward in this congress the pow to check donald trump is in republican hands and depends on republican votes. but they have been too scared, too cowed and too unwilling to do what these tough times demand. if we the members of the great body won't stand up for the norm that was sustained this republic for 230 years, then who will? general mattis is a patriot but now it's time for all of us in this chamber to reiterate a basic truth in a democracy, rules matter. shouldn't be discarded at the first sign of difficulty. they shouldn't be undercutty with bavers -- by waivers. importants predens must be upheld in good times and bad. this is america, not a banana republic where the leader gets to rewrite the rule book. our principles are enduring, our values are timeless. for more than two century, our commitment to the rule of law has been unshakeable. that's why we should reject t

jeffries: we have a president-elect who for five years perpetrated the racist lie that barack obama was not born in the united states of america. ran one of the most device i campaigns in the nation's history and then promised he was going to bring all of us together. and then you've got his colleagues on the other side of the aisle who have said, well, democrats and people in the civil rights community, african-americans, we should give the new president a chance. this is the same group of people with declared war on barack obama on day one of his presidency and governed themselves under the following approach. obstruction today, obstruction tomorrow, obstruction forever. that should sound familiar to folks from alabama and the deep south. but now they want us to give them a chance. you can't lecture us on presidential etiquette. you have no credibility in that area. we'll decide how we want to engage. and as it relates to your pick to head the department of justice, it is totally unacceptable, unreasonable, unjust, and unconscionable. not because of anything that he may have said 30 y

obama's deputies. and madam speaker, for those in the mainstream media, i think it's important to repeat that line. president trump's executive rder that didn't ban muslims but that ordered a temporary pause on people from certain countries from whom we had no information or inadequate information to vet the people that are coming in, it was based on security reviews conducted by president barack obama's deputies. white house counselor kellyanne conaway pointed out, the seven countries named in president trump's executive order are drawn from the terrorist prevention act of 2015. the 2015, quote, visa waiver program improvement and terrorist travel prevention act of 2015 named iraq, iran, sudan, syria. while its 2016 update added lib are a, somalia and -- libya, somalia and yemen. quote, these are countries that have a history of training, harboring, exporting terrorists. we can't keep pretending and looking the other way, said conway. moratorium is largely temporary. citizens of the seven countries --

but going back to this article, it says, as for barack obama, he did indeed ban immigration from iraq for much longer than trump's order bans it from the seven listed nations. and none of the people melting down today uttered a peep of protest. richard granell summed up it -- summed it up perfectly in a tweet. quote, obama took six months to review screening for one country. trump will take three months for seven countries. this article goes on, number five, trump's refugee caps are comparable to obama's pre-2016 practices. david french, who was touted as a spoiler candidate to keep donald trump out of the white house, during the presidential campaign, in other words, not a big trump fan, wrote a lengthy and clear-headed analysis of the executive order for national review. he noted that after the andtorium ends in 120 days, that's one section, it ends in 120 days, the other section is 90 days, another part says they'll have 30 days to produce a report, but it goes on to say, trump caps refugee admissions at 50,000 per year. which is roughly the same as president obama's admissions in

white barack obama, the house, january 11, 2017. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committees on he judiciary, agriculture, armed services, energy and commerce, education and the work services, cial homeland security, oversight and foreign reform, affairs, natural resources, ansportation and infrastructure, ways and means, veterans affairs, and the committee on ct intelligence and ordered printed. der the speaker's announced the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina, walker, is recognized for 60 the designee of the majority leader. mr. walker: this is a time for bypass outside influences. we are presenting something that is very important, not just a something that is nearly six years ago, right here we stand tonight was passed in an overly bipartisan have burdened american people in what is now obamacare, the affordable care act. this is a piece of legislation has been burdened small businesses and individuals alike. we have been asked to fix replace.eal and to what takes members to be able to have experienc

and we saw as barack obama came in as president, we had a $10 trillion debt, which he was very critical of throughout his campaign in 2007 and 2008. now as he leaves office here, thankfully in a couple of weeks, it's a $20 trillion and we can start to ratchet this thing back down. looking at the obama administration, their reports on the cost of regulation, they come up with this number. reported to the heritage foundation that the annual cost of regulations to the united states, according to the obama administration, is $108 billion, mr. chairman. and so that is what we're looking at here for cost. i want to get at the real meat of this. article 1 of the constitution says congress shall make all law, and yet we have the courts making laws over across the street and we have regulations coming at us at a rate of, i express to the gentleman from georgia, 10-1. for every law we passed in the last congress, 114th congress, there were at least 10 regulations that were poured over our head and we're sitting in a place where we don't have the tools to undo them. now we have a president that's

let us not forget that former president barack obama promised that he would bankrupt the coal industry. people are losing their jobs and dignity that comes with work. our communities are also suffering. fewer jobs means less economic investment and less hope. i encourage my colleagues to visit west virginia or appalachia and see firsthand what president obama's policies have done to our communities. it is heart breaking to hear the stoyrrs -- stories and see the faces of struggling families as they try to pay their bills. i stand today with those communities in rolling back the policies that have caused so much harm and pain. these new regulations would be catastrophic to the coal industry and all of the hardworking american families that depend on coal to keep heir energy costs low. and the shame of it all is that it's preventable. we must end this war on coal now. and that process begins today. i made a promise to my constituents of the second district of west virginia that i would fight for the coal industry and bring back jobs to my state. today is the first of many steps this cong