Expressing disapproval of the failure to satisfy the constitutional duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" and the usurpation of the legislative authority of Congress by the President of the United States.

take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed Whereas Article I of the United States Constitution vests Congress with all legislative powers; Whereas Article II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution imposes a duty on the President to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed Whereas the Constitution does not delegate authority to the President to rewrite, amend, or delay duly-enacted, constitutional laws; Whereas the take care the pretended power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without the consent of parliament, is illegal Whereas President George Washington explained the Constitution’s Take Care Clause as follows: It is my duty to see the Laws executed: to permit them to be trampled with impunity would be repugnant to Whereas Thomas Jefferson observed that if the equilibrium of the three great bodies, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, could be preserved, if the Legislature could be kept independent, never fear the result of such a government he could not but be uneasy when I saw that the Executive had swallowed up the Legislative branch Whereas Alexander Hamilton explained in The Federalist No. 69 that, under the Constitution, the President can prescribe no rules concerning the commerce or currency of the nation Whereas James Madison wrote in The Federalist No. 47 that the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny Whereas the text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires that the Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health Coverage provision, commonly known as the employer mandate, shall apply to months beginning after December 31, 2013 Whereas, on July 2, 2013, the executive branch announced that the President unilaterally rewrote the employer mandate provision to apply to the months applying after December 31, 2014; Whereas, on July 17, 2013, the House of Representatives passed a bill to delay the employer mandate by statute; Whereas the President threatened to veto the lawful change proposed by the House even though it was precisely the statutory change he instituted by executive fiat; Whereas the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act renders insurance policies that fail to contain what the government defines as essential minimum benefits Whereas millions of Americans are losing their individual health insurance policies because such policies do not qualify for grandfather status under the statute; Whereas, on November 14, 2013, the President announced that he would extend Whereas, on November 15, 2013, the House of Representatives passed a bill to overrule the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that are causing mass cancellations of insurance policies; and Whereas, on November 15, 2013, the President threatened to veto the lawful statutory change proposed by the House of Representatives: Now, therefore, be it That the House of Representatives— (1) disapproves of the President’s failure to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed (2) disapproves of the President’s usurpation of the legislative power of Congress through the rewriting of key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; and (3) reaffirms that the preservation of the Constitution’s separation of powers is essential for the protection of individual liberty and the maintenance of the rule of law.

Summary: Disapproves the President's: (1) failure to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," as required by the Constitution, and (2) usurpation of the legislative power of Congress through the rewriting of key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Reaffirms that the preservation of the Constitution's separation of powers is essential for the protection of individual liberty and the maintenance of the rule of law.