President Obama has issued a number of new executive orders on issues ranging from student loans to mortgage refinancing to prescription drugs. His argument has been that he must act because Congress refuses to work with him. That’s ridiculous according to Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Pitts. Pitts is chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health. He says Obama already had the authority to act and is now trumpeting an order that is completely meaningless. Pitts also says the administration has dragged its feet in cooperating with his subcommittee and this whole sequence is charged with politics. We discuss it all with Rep. Joe Pitts.
