I thought this was hysterical.
...in congress...Barack Hussain Obama was stripped of his presidential powers.
And then later
This bipartisan bill is about reviving the separation of powers
"We're making sure to separate powers by stripping you of yours!"
Unfortunately:
“The Obama administration’s regulatory agenda has been damaging to the economy and the destructive to separation of powers in Article I of the Constitution,” Brandon said
Barack Obama has been using loopholes and interpretations that are technically legal and within his scope of power.
Huge difference between "executive ordering" a "new law" that says "all illegals are welcome," and writing an executive order that says something like "Border and ICE agents will no longer arrest illegal immigrants, only process them for information."
One is writing a new law, one is determining law enforcement policy.
In practical reality the effect is like writing a new law, but legally he did not.
You want a president to have less loopholes with which to do this?
Vote better, and put in place people that don't pass 50,000 new laws and regulations a year, get people to stop looking towards government as "leaders" and needing to "do something."
Good luck with that.
The most hysterical thing, to me, is this:
The bill helps ensure this President, and any future president, will be held in check and that their policies have the proper level of scrutiny by both Congress and the American people.
They wrote and passed the freaking laws which Obama is using to push his executive actions.
This should ideally read something like "The bill helps ensure proper understanding of all potential consequences and uses of the things we pass by the people passing them (us) as to mitigate their misuse by other branches of the government when put into effect. Knowing that different representatives are going to interpret the laws and enact policy different than we might have intended. We should be wary of letting our clerks do everything and give us a synopsis, or passing things where we have to say 'we have to pass it to find out what's in it!'"
Congress' job is not to hold the president in check.
Its job is to write decent, well thought out, well defined laws.
The judicial branch is "supposed" to hold the policies of the president in "check," to determine if the enforcement of the laws is constitutional, as well as if the law itself is constitutional.