[Arthur McGowan]

He’s a bit shaky on how the Constitution works. E.g., you don’t go to any court and just ask questions.

[nathanbedford]

Nor can the House of Representatives alone build a border fence. It can investigate why no border fence has been built, it can pass a bill that a border fence should be built and hope for the concurrence of the Senate and the president, it can appropriate monies to build a fence, but unless our congresspersons themselves have become unaccountably invigorated and are willing to do a little pick and shovel work, they cannot build a fence.

But I understand what the author is trying to do, he is trying to run the government from the House of Representatives which is a very difficult undertaking and the closest we have come in my lifetime occurred under Newt Gingrich. There is much that can be done with House of Representatives alone, most of all it can provide the country with an alternative vision. That can only be done, however, with a spokesman who himself is not only articulate but happens to be invested of a vision.

The first words out of Boehner's mouth after the election were that he was going to acquiesce in "the law of the land" concerning Obama care which presumably means that the house will fund it. Here is an area in which the House of Representatives can actually act alone, but that was tossed to Obama free for the taking.

To anticipate a response from Boehner, it is unreasonable to expect the Speaker of the House to prevail against a freshly elected president when our presidential candidate funded with nearly $1 billion or more, could not convince the country. The response: if you cannot convince the country, step aside and let us find someone who can-or at least someone who is willing to try.

[Yosemitest]

Who said anything about going to court?
The House can hold hearing on anything they choose, and and they should do it on television, with NO closed hearings!
Yes, the House of Representatives can ask ANY question they choose, in ANY manner they choose, to WHOMEVER they choose,
and accept ANY evidence they choose to accept.
They set their own rules.

[editor-surveyor]

Congress does have the right to request that the SCOTUS examine a pertinant point of law. Why would you believe otherwise? Because they rarely have the honesty to do so?