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Executive Needs to Faithfully Observe and Respect Congressional Enactments of the Law Act of 2014 or the ENFORCE the Law Act of 2014 - Authorizes either chamber of Congress, upon adoption of a resolution declaring that the President or any officer or employee of the United States has established or implemented a policy, practice, or procedure to refrain from enforcing, applying, following, or administering any federal statute, rule, regulation, program, policy, or other law in violation of the constitutional requirement that the President faithfully execute the laws of the United States, to bring a civil action for a declaratory judgment to that effect.
Grants jurisdiction to a three-judge panel of a U.S. district court to hear such civil action and provides for an expedited direct appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Requires the Comptroller General (GAO) to submit quarterly reports to the congressional judiciary committees on the costs of any civil action brought under this Act, incuding any attorney fees paid in connection with any such action.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 4138 as passed House amended on Mar 12, 2014. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Mar 12, 2014Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMar 12, 2014
House Mar 12, 2014 · the primary vote
Executive Needs to Faithfully Observe and Respect Congressional Enactments of the Law Act of 2014
Passed
233 Yea 181 Nay 16 not voting
Party-line vote 5 of 414 voting members broke with their own party: 5 Democrats.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
430 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 4138 and vote against it. 17 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 4138 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
11 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.