James Sensenbrenner: "The Executive Order is Merely a Piece of Paper That Certainly Will Not Have Any Effect of Law"

"The executive order that is being talked about now is a piece of paper, it will have no force and no effect"

Sensenbrenner: "An executive order cannot change or trump existing law. The executive order that is being talked about now is a piece of paper, it will have no force and no effect and if one is concerned about preventing the exchanges that are established under the Senate bill that we will be voting on in a few hours.

Then the only thing that one can do is to vote against that Senate bill to preserve the Hyde Amendment from being expanded to programs to that are created under the Senate bill. I'm sorry, but the gentleman from Michigan [that would be Stupak] and the gentleman from California have misstated the law, it is pretty clear"

Here's video of Stupak being interview by Greta an hour after his presser, saying "The President issued an executive order which has the full force and effect of law"

A lot of people including myself know that Stupak doesn't believe what he's saying here about the executive order, he was just looking for cover to vote for the bill...