Can POTUS Sue Congress when they clearly neglect their duties?

[jberryhill]

41. "they are collecting pay for work not performed"

...as if it was their job to say "yes".

Their "job" is to do what the people elected them to do. Mitch McConnell has made it pretty clear for years that his job is to oppose everything the president does. The people of Kentucky re-elected him to continue doing that, and he's still doing it. That is the job the relevant electorate HIRED HIM TO DO.


http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/why-members-congress-should-still-be-paid-during-shutdown

"But logistics aside, the idea that congressmen should work without pay is based on a faulty, if widely held premise—that congressmen aren't doing their jobs. It's certainly true that Congress as a body isn't functioning properly, but on a district-by-district level, residents are getting what they voted for. People who elected mainstream Democratic senators didn't send them to Washington to defund the Affordable Care Act; people who stocked the House with arch-conservative Republicans in 2010 and 2012 didn't send their representatives to Washington to keep the Affordable Care Act intact. Why should a powerless House Democrat have to rearrange his finances because of John Boehner's intransigence?

If people really disagree with what their congressmen have done, of course, they have the same option a private employer would: Fire them. In 2011, House Republicans threatened to shut down the federal government and risk a default. In 2012, their constituents sent them back to try it again. Right now, they're getting what they paid for."