--- title: Boehner: House to Sue Obama Over Obamacare Employer Mandate description: House Speaker John Boehner explains his reasoning why Republicans are suing the President canonical: https://time.com/2974355/boehner-house-will-sue-president-over-obamacare-employer-mandate/ author: Alex Rogers article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-10T23:26:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:05:24.310Z article:section: Politics og:title: Boehner: House to Sue Obama Over Obamacare Employer Mandate og:description: House Speaker John Boehner explains his reasoning why Republicans are suing the President og:url: https://time.com/2974355/boehner-house-will-sue-president-over-obamacare-employer-mandate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39dc86e93aa3dc50/69869b5b169ab01bde27a4ea/john-boehner-obama-law-suit.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: Speaker of the House John Boehner speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Boehner: House to Sue Obama Over Obamacare Employer Mandate twitter:description: House Speaker John Boehner explains his reasoning why Republicans are suing the President twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39dc86e93aa3dc50/69869b5b169ab01bde27a4ea/john-boehner-obama-law-suit.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Boehner: House Will Sue President Over Obamacare Employer Mandate > Sponsored content. 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Joshua Roberts—Reuters by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Jul 10, 2014 11:26 PM UTC House Speaker John Boehner announced Thursday that the chamber will sue President Barack Obama for delaying the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate last year. The decision gave companies with at least 50 full-time employees an extra year to provide health insurance or face a fine. Earlier this year, the Administration delayed the mandate until 2016 for companies employing between 50 and 99 workers. “Today we’re releasing a draft resolution that will authorize the House to file suit over the way President Obama unilaterally changed the employer mandate,” wrote Boehner in a public statement. “In 2013, the president changed the health care law without a vote of Congress, effectively creating his own law by literally waiving the employer mandate and the penalties for failing to comply with it. That’s not the way our system of government was designed to work. No president should have the power to make laws on his or her own.” Democrats immediately ridiculed the measure as a political stunt. “Instead of working to create jobs, instead of working to strengthen the middle class or addressing any of the urgent issues facing our nation, Republicans are wasting taxpayer dollars on another toxic partisan stunt,” wrote Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, in a public statement. “This lawsuit is just another distraction from House Republicans desperate to distract the American people from their own spectacular obstruction and dysfunction.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2974355/boehner-house-will-sue-president-over-obamacare-employer-mandate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2974355/boehner-house-will-sue-president-over-obamacare-employer-mandate/"},"headline":"Boehner: House Will Sue President Over Obamacare Employer Mandate","datePublished":"2014-07-10T23:26:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:05:24.310Z","description":"House Speaker John Boehner says says the suit is based on the fact that Obama revised the Affordable Care Act mandate without approval from Congress","url":"https://time.com/2974355/boehner-house-will-sue-president-over-obamacare-employer-mandate/","keywords":["Congress","Obamacare","Barack Obama","Affordable Care Act","John Boehner","Lawsuit"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39dc86e93aa3dc50/69869b5b169ab01bde27a4ea/john-boehner-obama-law-suit.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Rogers","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39dc86e93aa3dc50/69869b5b169ab01bde27a4ea/john-boehner-obama-law-suit.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Speaker of the House John Boehner speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington","caption":"Speaker of the House John Boehner speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington","creditText":"Joshua Roberts—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2974355/boehner-house-will-sue-president-over-obamacare-employer-mandate/","name":"Boehner: House Will Sue President Over Obamacare Employer Mandate"}}]}] ```