{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://duncan.house.gov/immigration-executive-order-without-precedent", "Immigration Executive Order Without Precedent", "2014-12-04", "2014", "2014-12", "Republican", "House", "TN", "John Duncan", "D000533", "duncan.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Mr. Speaker,\nI rise in support of this very reasonable legislation, which really simply requires that our present immigration laws be fully enforced or at least not be violated.\nI commend the Gentleman from Florida, Mr. Yoho, for bringing this legislation to the floor.\nThe President has said he has been forced to act because the Congress has not done so.\nThat is not correct, as Chairman Goodlatte pointed out a few minutes ago.\nCongress can act in any one of three ways: writing a new law, changing an old law, or leaving present law in effect.\nThe Administration is glossing over or is ignoring the fact that we have very detailed immigration laws on the books now.\nThey may not like present law, but no one has the right, or the power, or the authority to pick and choose and enforce some laws but not others.\nPresidential executive orders have traditionally been used almost entirely for non-controversial, administrative-type actions. They were not meant to be a way for a President to bypass the Congress.\nWe do not live, or are not supposed to live, under a system where all the power is vested in the Executive.\nWe have a Constitution, and it should be followed.\nMister Speaker, all of us admire those who have immigrated here legally and have contributed so much to this Nation.\nWe have allowed many millions here legally since the Simpson-Mazzoli law of 1986, far more than any other country.\nBut with 58-percent of the people in the world having to get by on $4 or less a day, that means that almost four billion people are hoping to get one good meal today and probably aren't.\nWe are blessed beyond belief to live in this Nation.\nBut our entire infrastructure, our schools, our hospitals, our jails, our roads, our sewers simply could not handle the influx of mega millions who would come here in a relatively short time if we simply opened our borders.\nWe have to have a legal, orderly system of immigration, and it must be enforced.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://duncan.house.gov/immigration-executive-order-without-precedent"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7948759011924267, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}