July 30 (Bloomberg) — The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives voted to sue President Barack Obama's administration over implementation of his 2010 health-care law.
With a near-party-line vote of 225-201, lawmakers endorsed Speaker John Boehner's plan to file a lawsuit contending the president couldn't delay one of the health-care law's central requirements on his own, without a vote of Congress.
"In America we have a president, not a king," said Michigan Republican Candice Miller.
House Republicans have voted more than 50 times to repeal or delay all or part of Obamacare. A lawsuit will allow Boehner to escalate his objections to Obama's actions without giving in to some Tea Party-backed members of his party who want the House to impeach the president, a move he has ruled out.
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