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Rep. Jackson Lee: ‘We’ll Give President Obama a Number of Executive Orders’
CNSNews ^ | February 4, 2014 | Eric Scheiner

Posted on 02/04/2014 12:16:25 PM PST by jazusamo

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas)
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) says that the newly launched Congressional Full Employment Caucus will “give President Obama a number of executive orders that he can sign.”

Jackson Lee made the statement while gathered with Democrats on January 29th to announce the establishment of the Full Employment Caucus.

“We will be answering the call of all of America because people need work and we’re not doing right by them by creating work,” Jackson Lee said. “I believe this caucus will put us on the right path and we’ll give President Obama a number of executive orders that he can sign with pride and strength.”

“In fact, I think that should be our number one agenda. Let’s write up these executive orders, draft them of course - and ask the president to stand with us on full employment.”

The Congressional Full Employment Caucus was launched last week by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.). Conyers website says: “The Congressional Full Employment Caucus will serve as a platform and working group for Members dedicated to identifying solutions to our current unemployment crisis and advocating for legislative action.”

Executive orders issued by a president have the full force of law and do not have to receive approval by the legislative branch of government. During his State of The Union address last week, President Obama made clear he was willing to use executive actions to sidestep Congress.

In addition to Conyers and Lee, members of the caucus include; Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), José Serrano (D-N.Y.), and Mike Quigley (D-Ill.).


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbc; employmentcaucus; exe3cutiveorders; executiveorders; jacksonlee; obama; sjl
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Sheila and her fellow members of this Rogues Gallery (Congressional Full Employment Caucus) should do their job of legislating in the House of Representatives.
1 posted on 02/04/2014 12:16:25 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Why is this idiot in congress? Never mind.


2 posted on 02/04/2014 12:17:39 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: jazusamo

“don’t get body slammed by a lowland gorilla”


3 posted on 02/04/2014 12:18:16 PM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: jazusamo
I wonder why they aren't tapping into the states with great employment numbers.......

Those Governors would provide a clear blueprint on how to create jobs.

4 posted on 02/04/2014 12:19:06 PM PST by onona (The entitlement army doesnÂ’t vote for candidates, they vote for gravy.)
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To: Jim Robinson

She’s a real ‘head shaker.’


5 posted on 02/04/2014 12:19:47 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: jazusamo

Full Employment Caucus?

Black Caucus

Hispanic Caucus

Where is the impeachment caucus?


6 posted on 02/04/2014 12:20:21 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: jazusamo

Time to make her ambassador to Mars.


7 posted on 02/04/2014 12:21:01 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Jim Robinson

She doesn’t even understand the limitations of an Executive Order, let alone what planet/moon we landed on in 1969.


8 posted on 02/04/2014 12:21:40 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: jazusamo

"Can we see the Kenyan flag on Uranus?"


9 posted on 02/04/2014 12:22:13 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." - Lavrentiy Beria (& Eric Holder))
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To: jazusamo
“I believe this caucus will put us on the right path and we’ll give President Obama a number of executive orders that he can sign with pride and strength.”

Thus spake the Queen of the Constitution Dunces.

10 posted on 02/04/2014 12:23:48 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: jazusamo

If life is found on Mars (where the astronauts planted the American flag), whatever life form it may be, it will have a higher IQ than this poverty pimp.


11 posted on 02/04/2014 12:26:07 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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12 posted on 02/04/2014 12:26:13 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: jazusamo

After the first couple of sentences, I went back to the top to see if this is satire. Sadly, it is not.

The people of her district have solidly earned The Cold Stare of Contempt.


13 posted on 02/04/2014 12:26:17 PM PST by lurk
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To: jazusamo

Isn’t that circumventing the Constitution? Did Shelia break the law with the assertion she never intends to ‘vote’ on a bill within Congress, but rather craft Executive Orders?


14 posted on 02/04/2014 12:27:01 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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Rep. Jackson Lee: ‘We’ll Give President Obama a Number of Executive Orders’

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The first E/O SheJack can give NObama to sign is one requiring Congress Critters to have more brain cells than a pile of dog poop.

Those failing that test can get a one way bus ticket back to Houston.


15 posted on 02/04/2014 12:28:05 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Executive orders issued by a president have the full force of law and do not have to receive approval by the legislative branch of government.

Except when they are not within the authority granted the President by the Constitution.......

16 posted on 02/04/2014 12:29:20 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: jazusamo
Cosmonaut Sheila Jackson-Lee on her epic lunar mission. She awaits an executive order that will send her to Mars.
17 posted on 02/04/2014 12:29:48 PM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: 12th_Monkey
“don’t get body slammed by a lowland gorilla”

Sage advice, applicable here.

18 posted on 02/04/2014 12:30:29 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: lurk
After the first couple of sentences, I went back to the top to see if this is satire. Sadly, it is not.

I did the same thing, just sure I'd see this was printed by The Onion.

19 posted on 02/04/2014 12:30:37 PM PST by Bearshouse
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To: Jim Robinson

“...Why is this idiot in congress?...”

Because once upon a time, Americans believed in giving everybody a fair shot at opportunity - not “outcome” - and a group of unscrupulous traitors took and used that sense of fair play, and the naive decency of the American people, to corrupt what was a wonderful system that people fought and died for over 200 years.

And here we are. At the whim of the stupid, the uneducated, the illiterate, the seditious, and the outright treasonous.

For now.


20 posted on 02/04/2014 12:30:45 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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