Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Epidemics -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Epidemics -- United States, Epidemics -- Political aspects, Recess appointments -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Recess appointments -- Political aspects, Recess appointments -- Laws, regulations and rules, Presidents -- Political activity, Presidents -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Presidents -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Presidents -- Political aspects
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The House and Senate have both taken extended recesses amid the pandemic, convening at least every few days for so-called pro forma sessions to keep their chambers technically in session. [...]
Company public relations, United States. Congress, Republican Party (United States) -- Public relations, Presidents -- Political activity, Majorities, and Bipartisanship (Politics)
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Governing is always hard in polarized times, but it has been especially hard during U.S. President Donald Trump's first year in office. Undisciplined and unpopular, Trump has been largely unable [...]
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, War and emergency powers -- Laws, regulations and rules, Legislators -- Political activity, Presidents -- Political activity, and National Emergencies Act of 1976
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WASHINGTON -- One overarching law is almost always applicable in Washington -- the law of unintended consequences. Time and again, Congress takes steps to fix a problem, only [...]
United States. Congress -- Political activity, Presidents -- Political activity, Treaties -- Political aspects, and Free Trade Agreement, 1992, United States-Canada-Mexico
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The free trade agreement between the US and Mexico illustrated how Congress can work with the executive branch in coming up with foreign trade treaties for the common good. Constituent pressure can sometimes influence lawmakers but the institution as a whole generally serves as a forum for airing different points of view and not merely the self-interest of individual members. The executive branch also benefits from the expertise brought by the lawmakers and their staffs to the treaty-making process.
United States. House of Representatives -- Powers and duties, Presidents -- Political activity, and Impeachments
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The best course for the House is to present a case for impeachment focused on Ukraine and the danger to the 2020 elections. President Trump has now made [...]
Quesnel Cariboo Observer (Quesnel, British Columbia). Jan 14, 2021
Subjects
United States. Congress -- Political activity, Presidents -- Political aspects, Presidents -- Political activity, Democracy -- Political aspects, and Political parties
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For most people, last week's riotous attack on the U.S. Congress was shocking; for informed political watchers, however, it wasn't surprising. While President Trump may have incited his [...]
Quesnel Cariboo Observer (Quesnel, British Columbia). Jan 13, 2021
Subjects
United States. Congress -- Political activity, Presidents -- Political aspects, Presidents -- Political activity, Democracy -- Political aspects, and Political parties
Abstract
For most people, last week's riotous attack on the U.S. Congress was shocking; for informed political watchers, however, it wasn't surprising. While President Trump may have incited his [...]
United States. Congress -- Powers and duties and Presidents -- Political activity
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''We're fighting all the subpoenas.'' With this vow to reporters on Wednesday, President Trump laid bare his approach to the concept of congressional oversight. As the Democratic-controlled House [...]
Company public relations, United States. Department of Justice -- Officials and employees, United States. House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiciary -- Powers and duties, Attorneys general -- Evaluation, Governmental investigations -- Political aspects, Presidents -- Political activity, and Presidents -- Evaluation
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Abstract: William Barr's refusal to testify before Congress exposes a tension between legislative and executive branches that has been going on for some time. Attorney General [...]
Market trend/market analysis, Republican Party (United States) -- Political activity, Republican Party (United States) -- Forecasts and trends, Agenda-setting (Political science) -- Forecasts and trends, Presidents -- Political activity, and Presidents -- Forecasts and trends
Abstract
Donald Trump has a Congress problem. He can't get Republicans to promote his policies. And when he forces the issue -- as with his border wall -- he can't win [...]
United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Republican Party (United States) -- Political activity, and Presidents -- Political activity
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It is perhaps the most serious, direct criticism of President Trump by one of his fellow Republicans in Congress since his remarks about last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Va. [...]
United States. Congress -- Powers and duties and Presidents -- Political activity
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Is President Trump evolving into a figurehead, increasingly ignored by Congress and even some members of his own executive branch of government? Mr. Trump retains enormous direct powers [...]
United States. Congress and Presidents -- Political activity
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WASHINGTON -- Washington needs a vacation from itself. ''Doing nothing is exhausting,'' said Jason Chaffetz, the former Republican congressman from Utah, whose head start began with a surprise [...]
United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Legislators -- Political activity, and Presidents -- Political activity
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WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers still gather in committee rooms to discuss matters like improving chronic disease management and amphibious warfare. Statues of Ben Franklin and other luminaries of history [...]
The Economist. Oct 12, 2019, Vol. 433 Issue 9164, p28
Subjects
Company legal issue, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Presidential aides -- Political activity, Presidents -- Staff, Presidents -- Political activity, and Impeachments
Abstract
Assessing Congress's options for dealing with an unco-operative White House GORDON SONDLAND, America's ambassador to the European Union (EU) and author of lawyerly texts denying 'quid pro quo's [...]
United States. Congress, Presidential candidates -- Political activity, Presidential candidates -- Behavior, and Presidents -- Political activity
Abstract
Donald Trump's small band of intellectual defenders can no longer claim that he is good man. Instead, they say his dishonesty and cruelty are acceptable because Congress could check him [...]
United States. Department of Justice -- Powers and duties, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, United States. Congress -- Political activity, Government attorneys -- Powers and duties, Legislative power -- Analysis, Separation of powers -- Analysis, and Presidents -- Political activity
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In understanding the willingness of government lawyers to defend the constitutionality of federal statutes, this article will explain why presidents rarely make use of their powers under the Constitution (allowing the president to refuse to defend laws he finds unconstitutional) and under federal law (placing the control of most government litigation with the attorney general). Attention will be paid both to how Department of Justice lawyers enhance their power by defending federal statutes and to how Congress, if need be, can pressure the department to bow to lawmaker preferences. In consequence, when the president refuses to defend a statute, courts have little reason to disregard article III constraints to resolve constitutional challenges to federal laws.
The Economist. May 11, 2019, Vol. 431 Issue 9142, p22
Subjects
Market trend/market analysis, Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Partisanship -- Political aspects, Partisanship -- Forecasts and trends, Executive power -- Political aspects, Executive power -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Presidents -- Political activity
Abstract
How Donald Trump's war on oversight could reshape the relationship between Congress and the presidency JAMES WILSON--the one who signed the Declaration of Independence and took one of [...]
United States. Congress -- Political activity, Presidents -- Political activity, and Armed Forces -- Mobilization
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'Congress, the President, and the Use of Military Force: Cooperation or Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era?' Michael E. Smith also examines how presidents wheel and deal with Congress, concentrating on the decision to use military force. Noting that we have to date little knowledge of the actual conditions under which Congress is likely to challenge a presidential decision to use force, Smith focuses on the partisan incentive to use military force in a divided government environment. He argues that it should be more intense now that the cold war is over. He analyzes House voting on a series of cold war and post-cold war U.S. military interventions. He compares three cold war episodes (the deployment of U.S. forces in Central America during the mid-1980s, U.S. participation in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon in 1983, and the reflagging of Kuwaiti oil tankers in 1987 during the Iran-Iraq war) with three in the 1990s (the Persian Gulf War in 1991, intervention in Somalia in 1992-93, and Haiti in 1994). Smith finds that members of Congress have been basing their decision to support a presidential decision to use force on their identification with the president's party. The end of the cold war, then, has heightened the role of partisanship in presidential wheeling and dealing, even in such important and potentially deadly decisions as intervening in other countries with U.S. military force.
United States. Department of State -- Political activity, United States. Congress -- Political activity, and Presidents -- Political activity
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'The Politics and Poetry of Advice and Consent: Congress Confronts the Roosevelt Administration during the State Department Confirmation Incident of 1944.' Nicholas Evan Saran takes also explores wheeling and dealing in the Roosevelt administration, but in a crisis that affected the foreign rather than the domestic policy arena. He focuses on a seldom-treated breakdown in congressional relations between the president and a bipartisan coalition of senators determined to play the politics of confirmation brinkmanship. Demonstrating that presidents can be attacked from both flanks, the coalition was led by a group of liberal New Deal senators who claimed that Roosevelt's nominees were too conservative; they were joined by others on the Right who either disagreed with Roosevelt's foreign policy or who wanted to show the president that the legislative branch was intent on having a voice in postwar U.S. foreign policy. Starting in 1943, the conflict came to a head over the confirmation of Roosevelt's nomination of Archibald McLeish as an assistant secretary of state. Through miswheeling and misdealing, the issue became recast, in part, as a battle over which branch of the federal government would control foreign policy, leading to individual votes cast on grounds other than the competence of the nominee. Eventually, Roosevelt broke the deadlock by requesting that his new secretary of state, Edward A. Stettinius, use the president's name in a written note to persuade wavering senators. Franklin D. Roosevelt thus maneuvered to defeat the filibuster that had been mounted against McLeish and other nominees, and to move the nominees forward to confirmation. Biles concludes that while the Senate actions seemed strange to contemporary observers, they made sense from the wheeling and dealing perspective of protecting the legitimatacy of their institutional prerogatives. The confirmation crisis shows that not only is the outcome of wheeling and dealing important; who wheels and deals and the power they wield can be an issue as well.