text: Today, I asked the non-partisan Congressional Research Service,  CongressÛªs research arm, to investigate President Obama's authority to delay the employer mandate required by the Affordable Care Act.  The AdministrationÛªs delay is a formal admission that this law canÛªt be fixed. Delaying the employer mandateÛÓwhile preserving the requirement that individuals purchase insuranceÛÓonly postpones the inevitable catastrophe that is Obamacare.  This action raises a lot of questions about whether the Obama Administration can simply ignore the law when itÛªs convenient for them. As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, I am going to get to the bottom of this question.