{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://stewart.house.gov//media-center/press-releases/stewart-votes-to-nullify-the-president-s-recent-immigration-executive", "Stewart Votes to Nullify the Presidents Recent Immigration Executive Action", "2014-12-04", "2014", "2014-12", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Chris Stewart", "S001192", "stewart.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 Today, Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) voted in favor of the Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014, which passed the House. This bill nullifies the president\u2019s recent immigration executive action and reaffirms the constitutional principles that only Congress has the power to write immigration laws and that the President\u2019s role is to enforce existing laws.\n\u201cThis is an important bill that reaffirms the roles of the branches of government as envisioned by our founding fathers,\u201d Stewart said. \"The Constitution is clear \u2014 it\u2019s Congress\u2019 responsibility to write the law and the president\u2019s job is to simply enforce those laws. We must prevent President Obama, and future presidents, from abusing their authority through immigration executive orders. This bill does just that. Now is the time for the Senate to act and I urge my Senate colleagues to take up this important piece of legislation.\"\nSpecifically this bill:\n Prevents President Obama or any future president from exempting or deferring the removal of categories of unlawful aliens except to the extent that the president is relying on his constitutional powers over foreign affairs or utilizing exceptions provided for in the bill for exceptional humanitarian and law enforcement circumstances\n\tPrevents President Obama or any future president from considering such aliens to be lawfully present in the United States (and thus ineligible for the rights and privileges available to lawfully present aliens)\n\tPrevents President Obama or any future president from granting work authorization to such aliens\n\tTakes effect as if enacted on November 20, 2014, thus nullifying the president\u2019s recent executive action\n Full text of the bill can be found here.", 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://stewart.house.gov//media-center/press-releases/stewart-votes-to-nullify-the-president-s-recent-immigration-executive"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7044199630618095, "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"}