DeLay on Obama Gun Executive Order: Congress Should Consider Impeachment

"The House needs to use its power of hearings to start letting the American people know that this is a lawless president"

by Todd Beamon | Newsmax | October 24, 2015

 

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told Newsmax TV on Friday that if President Barack Obama implemented a plan to require background checks on some gun sales by executive order and without congressional approval, the House should consider impeachment proceedings.

“The very fact that you might bring it before the Judiciary Committee and investigate it and determine whether it’s an impeachable offense is a very healthy thing to do,” DeLay, the Texas Republican who served in the position from 2003 to 2005, told “Newsmax Prime” in an interview.
Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported that Obama was considering circumventing Congress and imposing an executive order requiring high-volume gun dealers to perform background checks on their buyers.
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