Rep Marino Explores Civil, Criminal Actions Against Administration

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By John Rolls (Reporter)
Rep Marino Explores Civil, Criminal Actions Against Administration
Saturday, July 13, 2013 11:30

 

Andrew M. Seder * Free Republic

U.S. Rep. Tom Marino, a critic of President Barack Obama, said in a radio interview Thursday he is exploring options available to Congress that would allow members to file civil or criminal actions against members of the Obama administration.
The former U.S. attorney chided Obama’s “unilateral” decision regarding the Congress-approved Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, that included delaying one mandate that was set to begin without first seeking congressional approval.
Last week, the Obama administration announced a delay until 2015 a requirement that businesses with 50 or more workers provide health insurance for their employees. Some in Congress, including Marino, believe that decision was illegal as it would be up to Congress to amend a congressional-crafted bill. But there doesn’t seem to be anyone outside of Congress willing to enforce these laws, he said.
Marino said the job of enforcing the laws of the land should fall to the attorney general, but he accused Attorney General Eric Holder of not doing his job.
“If the chief law enforcer of the country … will not enforce the law, and the president decides to break the law because he doesn’t like it, there has to be another mechanism by which we in Congress can kick into gear, pursue this, see if there are criminal charges we can file,” Marino said during an appearance on the David Madeira Show on “94.3 The Talker” in Scranton.
Marino, R-Lycoming Township, said there are a few former prosecutors in Congress, like himself, who should be able to discuss the law and come up with a way Congress can perform its duty as part of the checks and balances on government.
He said he’s looking to gather those attorneys together and have them “meet with me in a brainstorming discussion to go over what I think the law allows Congress to do.” He said the next step would be to “approach leadership and say we need to appoint a special committee like there was in Watergate that has authority to subpoena people, that has authority to investigate; and, I’m looking for a part of a statute that says we have the authority to indict.”
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