President Barack Obama smiles in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on Aug. 1, 2014.
Weston Wamp and Chuck Fleischmann
Jim Tracy and Scott DesJarlaisNASHVILLE – Republicans running against each other in Tennessee’s 3rd and 4th Congressional District primaries agree on at least one thing.
It’s taken a Democrat, President Barack Obama, to unite 3rd District Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and his challenger, Weston Wamp, and 4th District Rep. Scott DesJarlais and the man running against him, state Sen. Jim Tracy.
All four men say the House was right in voting Wednesday to authorize Speaker John Boehner to sue the president in federal court and “seek appropriate relief” for Obama’s failure to enforce a provision of the Affordable Care Act.
The measure passed the GOP-run House 225-201, along mostly party lines.
“Time and time again, President Obama has exceeded his authority and circumvented Congress in order to advance his own political agenda,” Fleischmann said in a statement.