Part eight of the Washington Examiner’s 10-part series “With the Stroke of a Pen: How Obama abuses executive power to make the law of the land.”

There were plenty of reasons why President Obama’s $787 trillion economic stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, received no Republican votes in the House of Representatives.

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