we are joined from capitol hill by mike lillis of the hill who's reporting on this debate. does speaker boehner want to sue the president? >>> this plays into the republican narrative, and we've heard it for three years, ever since boehner has gotten the gavel, ever since obama has taken the white house that he's abused his executive authority, stepped out of bounds of the constitution, and boehner said, we've had enough, we're going to sue him. and they're pointing to a provision of the -- of obamacare, of course, the health care law that the democrats passed without any republican support. and they're saying that a certain delay in one of those provisions is outside of the law, what congress didn't approve it, and we're suing you because of it. >> what's this resolution do? say it passes the house. what does it mean? >> it authorizes the house, the chamber, the actual chamber, to sue president obama. to sue the white house. now, the debate over -- one facet of this debate is whether or not they even have standing to do so. a lot of legal scholars say they do not, others s

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