"In a strictly tactical sense, the executive branch has a head start in any controversy with the legislative branch, since the legislative branch wants something the executive branch has," Mr. Rehnquist wrote.
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She also suggested perhaps the legislative branch get moving again.
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The executive (Inaudible), the legislative branch should be making them.
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The legislative branch has not addressed this issue at all.
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But Article 1 of the Constitution is the legislative branch.
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If the president will not lead, the legislative branch must.
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But Article 2628 of the Constitution is the legislative branch.
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The executive branch "cannot bind the legislative branch," Eoyang said.
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The executive is governing at the expense of the legislative branch.
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The ObamaCare debacle wasn't just a failure for the legislative branch.
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It's not just the legislative branch that's undermining the courts, either.
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The Constitution gives sole authority over trade to the legislative branch.
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It's a sad loss for Arizona, America and our legislative branch.
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However, the legislative branch bared its teeth with the Russia sanctions.
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The Legislative Branch bill maintained a pay freeze on Congressional salaries.
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The Legislative Branch also holds constitutional power to impeach Supreme Court justices.
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The legislative branch is left giving vaguely disapproving quotes to the press.
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The Constitution vests the power of the purse in the legislative branch.
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He is committed to restoring faith of Americans in the legislative branch.
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That was a grave responsibility the founders bestowed upon our legislative branch.
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They are co-directors of the nonpartisan Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group.
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The legislative branch, meanwhile, may launch an investigation into the antitrust probe.
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They also said that climate policies must come from the legislative branch.
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"We have a legislative branch intended to protect the citizenry," Vest said.
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Critics call it an unconstitutional end run around the legislative branch. 2.
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Unlike prime ministers, American presidents are constitutionally independent of the legislative branch.
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It is not simply to rubber stamp whatever the legislative branch demands.
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The Legislative Branch could have become an extension of the White House.
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More than likely, the legislative branch would have overridden President Trump's veto.
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"We are the committee of jurisdiction in the legislative branch," he said.
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The adjustment would come in a spending bill that covers the legislative branch.
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And he believes policy should be made by the executive and legislative branch.
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And the legislative branch doesn't seem to have much to do with legislation.
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Read on for a look at how impeachment works in the legislative branch.
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McFadden, however, cited the political tools at the disposal of the legislative branch.
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A vote last month allowed President Maduro to replace his country's legislative branch.
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Where's the third branch of government, the legislative branch, in all of this?
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At the time, Frelinghuysen named himself legislative branch subcommittee chairman as a placeholder.
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Arkansas cheese beats Texas queso in a legislative-branch sanctioned cheese dip contest.
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The legislative branch hasn't felt all that relevant to governing under President Obama.
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We are a separate branch of government — we're the legislative branch of government.
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Instead of the legislative branch writing the laws and the executive branch simply "enforcing" them, the Trump administration is writing new policies; the judicial branch chooses whether or not to greenlight them; and the legislative branch either funds or defunds them.
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But if DACA does end, the pressure to act shifts to the legislative branch.
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Second, judges don't get to pick their battles like executive and legislative branch officials.
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I can do my job, which is to represent you in the legislative branch.
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It said the legislative branch controls government spending and that Trump's move is unconstitutional.
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In fact, the nation's legislative branch is still trying to get some work done.
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The war powers assigned to the Legislative Branch under the Constitution have become vestigial.
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In the legislative branch, more than 80 groups claim some jurisdiction over cybersecurity matters.
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The result is a classic confrontation between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
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This is not to say the legislative branch has been mute on the issue.
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The state's legislative branch will now have to reassign a date for the primary.
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The current crisis is a critical juncture the legislative branch cannot afford to ignore.
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The Constitution, as noted above, explicitly contemplates that the legislative branch will create offices.
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The legislative branch has two options for reacting to the conduct of the president.
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There are conflicts between between the executive and legislative branch over oversight throughout history.
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In such a polarized legislative branch, however, one party cannot always rely on precedent.
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This tightly fought political atmosphere is not just a development in the legislative branch.
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And it's incredibly frustrating when the White House basically says the legislative branch is irrelevant.
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The new constitution would also place the legislative branch at the disposal of the executive.
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In other words, a Trump administration offers a rare opportunity for a resurgent legislative branch.
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The U.S. legislative branch, depending on its composition, would also likely have a mitigating impact.
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"And that's just not the right way for a legislative branch to function," he added.
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In the meantime, the House may consider the annual appropriations bill for legislative branch operations.
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During a House Rules Committee hearing on Wednesday on the legislative branch spending bill, Rep.
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We have a legislative branch that increasingly sees its role as resistance rather than action.
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There is this direct conflict going on between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
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They want to overwhelm the judiciary, overwhelm the legislative branch, and essentially become the king.
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The sunset could come even sooner if Democrats sweep the legislative branch and the presidency.
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Going to war used to be something the executive branch and legislative branch did together.
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The annual spending bill for legislative branch operations typically passes with a wide bipartisan majority.
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By contrast, recent decades have seen the legislative branch steadily lose power to the executive.
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Connolly called the officials' excuses for failing to appear "an assault on the legislative branch" and "the constitutional framework of our government," warning that the legislative branch would become "a pale shadow of what it was intended to be" should the officials' refusals stand.
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"We respect an independent judiciary," the Speaker, the co-head of the legislative branch, made clear.
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But he does not have the authority to make that happen, only the legislative branch does.
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He doesn't even hold a political office and he's already a check on our legislative branch.
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This suggests that a president may not be impeached and removed solely by the legislative branch.
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Our legislative branch was intended to be the center about which our constitutional constellation would orbit.
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The Aurora students objected to the executive enacting laws under the purview of the legislative branch.
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Mr. Drutman and Mr. Kosar are co-directors of the nonpartisan Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group.
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But, taken together, these reforms might help to restore some needed power to the legislative branch.
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One can recognize substantial executive power, but that doesn't mean the legislative branch should be dead.
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Executive and legislative branch officials are already subject to certain restrictions over their post-government work.
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She also has an understanding of the way the legislative branch works that he does not.
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Term limits are the surest way to weaken the legislative branch and empower the executive branch.
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Nunes' GOP colleagues credit him with being in tune with the inner workings of the legislative branch.
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This evolution of the legislative branch provides an opportunity to represent the best interests of all consumers.
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But at its core, the reforms are meant to upend Italy's "perfect bicameralism" in its legislative branch.
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An ability to override this separation was included and given to the legislative branch to resolve this.
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The only portions of the government not covered would be the White House and the legislative branch.
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The latter takes some effort from the legislative branch, on which Congress has been slow to deliver.
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The Constitution requires the legislative branch, through the Senate, to provide advice and consent for presidential nominees.
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You can be excused for believing that the legislative branch has no role in this entire process.
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The $147 billion package covered military construction and veterans affairs, the legislative branch, and energy and water.
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The House was initially set to consider a spending package that included funding for legislative branch operations.
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Partly that was because Democrats had dominated the legislative branch for most of the previous 60 years.
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The package combines three appropriations bills: Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.
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His top criterion, Mr. Trump has said, is someone who can help him navigate the legislative branch.
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That's why we are calling on Compass, Senate and legislative branch officials to make this right immediately.
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The legislative branch subpoena is one of the most powerful tools the American people entrust to Congress.
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GOP senators want the Senate to stake out more legislative branch authority over foreign policy (The Hill).
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Senators approved a $147 billion package to fund the Energy Department, veterans' programs and the legislative branch.
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It's rather obvious: she controls half of the legislative branch and nothing moves without her sign off.
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It made a ruling that effectively dissolved the opposition-controlled legislative branch and absorbed all its power.
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"I haven't heard anybody in the legislative branch say they think it's a great idea," said Sen.
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"Usually an executive is warned to avoid 'interference' with the legislative branch of government," the governor wrote.
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Congress passed new laws rein in the intelligence community and ensure effective oversight by the legislative branch.
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We live in a post-constitutional America where the legislative branch of government is missing in action.
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And any reckless use of emergency powers would set a dangerous precedent for overriding the legislative branch.
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Mr. Trump, by contrast, is challenging the bedrock principle that the legislative branch controls the government's purse.
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"The legislative branch has a responsibility of oversight of our democracy and we will exercise that," she said.
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The imprint of the legislative branch gives much greater weight to any program than the executive branch does.
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The poll is in line with other polls showing most Americans are displeased with our federal legislative branch.
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The legislative branch of government in particular is supposed to represent the best interests of the American population.
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"This is a matter to be decided by the legislative branch of government, not the executive branch," Rep.
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How would the verdict alter the balance of power between Executive Branch and Legislative Branch in the future?
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Under Article II, Section 85033 of the Constitution, warmaking powers reside in the hands of the legislative branch.
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This is a preliminary draft and a starting point for negotiations between the president and the legislative branch.
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The legislative branch writes laws meant to constrain the executive branch and control the flow of the game.
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The executive and legislative branch have four-week term limits while the judiciary enjoys an eight-week term.
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Is he trying to, in essence, weaken" the legislative branch and "our natural prerogatives to speak our minds?
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It would be glaringly self-serving for members of the legislative branch to argue against such a mechanism.
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The Constitution grants the power to shape the nation's immigration laws to the legislative branch, not the president.
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Giving the initiative to the executive rather than the legislative branch is a disastrous ceding of congressional authority.
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The legislation merges appropriations for the energy and water, legislative branch, and military construction and veterans affairs bills.
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This year's legislative branch bill will likely resurrect debate over lawmaker salaries, which have been frozen since 2900.
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The bill includes spending bills for defense and veterans programs, legislative branch operations and the Department of Energy.
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At times, that means the Supreme Court should play the role of the legislative branch by writing laws.
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No government agency can be above constitutional oversight from the legislative branch and transparency to the American people.
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Few were able to say what environment might allow a cost-of-living increase for the legislative branch.
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Pelosi, who butted heads with both Bush and Obama, sees the legislative branch as equal to the executive.
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Since 2005, a designated survivor from Congress has also been selected in order to rebuild the legislative branch.
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Fact check: The legislative branch is constitutionally tasked with the power to conduct oversight of the executive branch.
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It has languished in the quagmire that currently serves as the legislative branch of our stagnant divided government.
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This is because the information belongs to the executive branch; not to the committees or the legislative branch.
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Constitutionally speaking, presidential impeachments were intended to act as a check on the presidency by the legislative branch.
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The Framers were clear in their intent to grant the power to initiate war with the legislative branch.
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The founding rules of our republic established a formal mechanism that could be used by the legislative branch.
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With the U.S. legislative branch spinning its wheels, the executive branch pledged to look at rewriting Obamacare regulations.
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As Cato Institute trade analyst Simon Lester notes, the legislative branch ultimately retains constitutional authority on trade policy.
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The legislative branch of government should be able to rely on a deep bench of in-house knowledge.
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The White House has stonewalled various congressional requests and subpoenas, defying the inherent oversight authority of the legislative branch.
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Instead there is the Office of Compliance, which handles complaints from the 30,000 legislative branch employees across the country.
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For the legislative branch, adding another emotionally charged and highly contentious issue to the docket will likely prove difficult.
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For most of Mr. Bush's presidency, trust in the legislative branch outpaced confidence in the executive, according to Gallup.
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In other words, impeachment is purely a function of the legislative branch; not the executive, and not the judicial.
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Another measure would expand Sisi's power over the legislative branch by creating an upper house known as a senate.
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And he just called for a new legislative branch to be created, what he calls the constituent national assembly.
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She also called on Congress to do more to stop the legislative branch from ceding authority to the executive.
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These races, particularly for congressional seats, could determine whether an incoming president has a cooperative legislative branch or not.
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And the legislative branch as a whole is still reeling from a targeted shooting last Wednesday, which hospitalized Rep.
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Trump threatened to move forward with the raids if the legislative branch failed to make progress within two weeks.
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The Sunday vote will determine 500 members of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Thailand's legislative branch.
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The legislative branch that is supposed to provide a check and balance to his power has only amplified it.
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Those who follow Congress are rarely optimistic about what changes the legislative branch can make in an election year.
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Congress often passes largely symbolic legislation, but these bills could come at a prohibitive cost for the legislative branch.
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Building a secure national electronic infrastructure is a vital step to assure continuity of government in the legislative branch.
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In theory, the best counterbalance to an aggressive presidency and an assertive judiciary would be a strong legislative branch.
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The legislative branch funding bill was held up because of disagreements over whether Congress should increase its own pay.
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The next year, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award given by the US legislative branch.
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Thornberry said he shares Trump's frustration with the legislative branch but said shutdowns are not good for the country.
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Leaders must balance the safety of members and the public with a desire to keep the legislative branch operating.
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Every four years, voters elect members of the Bundestag, the legislative branch of the German government based in Berlin.
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And at a company where the CEO has majority control over voting shares, there is effectively no legislative branch.
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And if we had a President Sanders, you would have a legislative branch that provided some of that friction.
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The federal lawmaking process should be simple: the legislative branch writes the laws, and the executive branch enforces them.
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I urge all Americans to be mindful that the legislative branch remains a significant element of our representative democracy.
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You can't allocate tens of billions of dollars a year without some action by the legislative branch in particular.
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Elizabeth Warren: "But the Constitution gives the power to authorize the use of military force to the legislative branch." pic.twitter.
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Forty-nine percent say they prefer a legislative branch controlled by Democrats, while 2595 percent would rather see GOP majorities.
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That "minibus" will fund the Energy and Water, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Legislative Branch Appropriations bills for 2019.
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The Court of Federal Claims was established by Congress under Article I, which addresses the powers of the legislative branch.
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And a member of the executive branch, which Rod Rosenstein is, shouldn&apost be able to bully the legislative branch.
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It made a ruling that effectively dissolved the opposition-controlled legislative branch and took all of its power for themselves.
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Previously, the president endorsed a candidate from his party for the legislative branch who pleaded guilty to assaulting a journalist.
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"If the executive branch refuses to enforce the policy of the legislative branch, that's a true constitutional crisis," he added.
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That authority is the source of much of the power of the legislative branch in negotiating with the executive branch.
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Although the public has historically been cynical toward the job performance of the legislative branch, recent polling is uniquely dire.
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Although the city's centrist mayor, Ed Lee, generally supported tech companies, the legislative branch (the Board of Supervisors) was split.
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And I think it takes away power from the legislative branch, so it's a failure on all sorts of fronts.
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The political parties and system supporting them have come to care more about majorities in the legislative branch than governing.
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But when Trump was talking about earmarks, it wasn't in the vein of giving more power to the legislative branch.
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The legislative branch budget, which includes funding for the Capitol Police, was signed into law by the President last September.
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This is perhaps the most basic responsibility of the legislative branch, yet for decades, Congress has repeatedly come up short.
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There was the complexity of that, and working with the executive branch and the legislative branch in doing all that.
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That's the worst rating in CNN polling on the legislative branch since before the start of this Congress last January.
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"It isn't even the legislative branch" that's behind the challenge, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in apparent agreement with Heytens.
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Given these widespread worldwide phenomena, why then not introduce gender quotas or gender parity policies to the U.S. legislative branch?
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Again, it was Speaker Ryan's job at that moment to assert the independence and equal status of the legislative branch.
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Delegates from the larger states found themselves at odds with the smaller ones over how to apportion the legislative branch.
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Earlier in the year, the Senate included $5 million to cover intern pay in the 2019 legislative branch appropriations bill.
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The price tag of $18,417.17 briefly drew the ire of the legislative branch, according to the White House Historical Association.
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The legislation will only provide funding for defense, the Energy Department, legislative branch operations and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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But the ethics committees prove how vital it is for accountability of Congress to originate outside of the legislative branch.
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If it doesn't, it set a huge precedent for the executive branch to seize power from the legislative branch. 15.
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" And Sean Hannity, an anchor and self-described Trump supporter, lamented that "the legislative branch [has] now failed the president.
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In that sense, we continue to acknowledge that the power to legislate should only be done by the legislative branch.
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Those are just some of the issues where we can expect more hearings and oversight efforts from the legislative branch.
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Given the power the legislative branch retains to investigate and compel officials to testify, this was probably a seriously bad idea.
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A lame duck session and a Republican Congress will make it difficult to get such a bill through the legislative branch.
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Perhaps it's time for the legislative branch (Congress) to step in and fix our broken immigration system once and for all.
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The Constitution grants the legislative branch the "power of the purse"; thus, Congress' assent is necessary to change most spending priorities.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg responded that the House of Delegates "isn't even the legislative branch; it's one house of the legislature".
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The legislative branch has become so gridlocked that no president can expect to sign more than one or two significant laws.
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But they are emblematic of de Blasio's laissez-faire approach to the legislative branch, an attitude forged during his first term.
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The great opportunity of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress does not come around often within the legislative branch.
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The so-called minibus legislation will include three appropriations bills: Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.
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Democrats are nevertheless excited about the prospect of subpoena power and the first real legislative branch oversight of the Trump administration.
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When House and Senate appropriations deliberations began this year, funding levels for the Legislative Branch had been stagnant for a decade.
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It's just an accident or "incidental," after all, if the CIA happens to pick up whistleblower communications with the legislative branch.
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A senior Democratic aide said consideration of legislative branch spending will remain on hold as lawmakers discuss the pay raise issue.
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Last week, Trump signed a package of three bills, including military construction and veterans' affairs, legislative branch and energy and water.
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The so-called "minibus" legislation will include three appropriations bills: Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.
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But he rejects the idea of shutting down Congress, saying the legislative branch becoming "paralyzed" could do more damage than good.
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If Mr. Trump fires Mr. Mueller, Congress can ask him to continue his investigation under the auspices of the legislative branch.
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" He details "taxpayers' money being used to cover the costs of settling sexual harassment allegations against lawmakers or legislative branch employees.
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Once Congress learned of the scheme and began investigating it, Trump launched a scorched-earth campaign against the legislative branch itself.
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As with the great civil rights acts in American history, addressing shortcomings in antidiscrimination law lies properly with the legislative branch.
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We should come together in the legislative branch of government to say we are going to do and preserve our democracy.
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"The Constitution reserves lawmaking authority for the legislative branch, not unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch," Massie said in a statement.
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A fight over illegal immigration is making its way into a typically noncontroversial annual spending bill to fund legislative branch activities.
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May, the role of prime minister has ceased to be that of the head of the legislative branch of British government.
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Changing the Constitution is for an amendment process and changing, by the way, policy within constitutional balance is for the legislative branch.
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There's really important issues of privacy, and these are important policy issues that the legislative branch and the executive branch should consider.
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That means the executive branch is actively trying to squash the legislative branch and the judicial branch might not even weigh in.
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In other words, the executive branch, through DACA, sought to achieve what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions.
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Since the Constitution gives Congress the power to authorize federal spending, Trump's efforts could be seen as going around the legislative branch.
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But the legislative branch may be the least trusted wing of government: only 9% of Americans reported confidence in Congress in 2016.
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Juan Guaidó, the 35-year-old head of Venezuela's legislative branch, has only been in his role for less than a month.
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"Hopefully it sends a very powerful message to the legislative branch: This is very important; this matters and we vote," she said.
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It is the constitutional obligation of the intelligence community (as an apparatus of the executive branch) to report to the legislative branch.
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Getting rid of the opposition-controlled legislative branch effectively meant the ruling United Socialist Party controlled the remaining two branches of government.
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The page, located under the "Our Government" sub-section of the website, now sits alongside the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch subpages.
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They purposely imbued the minority party in the legislative branch with the tools needed to force the majority to compromise with it.
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It's time for a change in Washington, and it must come from the legislative branch, whose job is to empower regulatory enforcers.
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Democratic leaders then opted to pull the part of the appropriations package dealing with legislative branch spending from floor consideration this week.
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The legislative branch is powerful in Alabama by design, but Mr. Hubbard's sway was made even greater by the discipline he enforced.
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The truth is that Compass, Senate staffers and other legislative branch officials missed an important opportunity when they negotiated the Senate contract.
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Forty-nine percent of Republicans said they trust the legislative branch, compared to 28503 percent of Democratic respondents who said the same.
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Government and the legislative branch must consider new ways to stop the the flow of terrorist propaganda while preserving the First Amendment.
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It's as if the legislative branch of government has just thrown up its hands and decided that its work here is done.
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But this is not an isolated incident – it is just another symptom of a greater problem: a weak and dysfunctional legislative branch.
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And the November election is also likely to produce the first Eritrean-American and female Native-American members of the legislative branch.
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One hang up was how the legislative branch, which is governed by its own bylaws in addition to the Constitution, would convene.
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A president unsure of what he wants could be a chance for the legislative branch to put itself in the driver's seat.
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So what if the executive branch just broke the law to run over some toes on one leg of the legislative branch?
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For the benefit of the republic's health and welfare, the legislative branch cannot be an inactive and uninterested body on foreign policy.
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The Schumer shutdown is a preview of what we can expect should the Democrats wrest control of the legislative branch in November.
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Some of them might even join their Democratic colleagues across the aisle and stand up for the authority of the legislative branch.
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Over the past decades, the legislative branch has given away too much power and the executive branch has taken too much power.
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Some of us criticized the action as a circumvention of the legislative branch that undermined our system of the separation of powers.
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Regardless of the outcome, however, the importance of re-establishing an equal legislative branch is paramount for our system and our future.
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Lawmakers in both parties had already expressed support for mandatory sexual harassment awareness training, which is currently voluntary for legislative branch staffers.
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Why it matters: The Legislative Branch embarks on its ultimate weapon against the Executive Branch with the two parties locked in corners.
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But having been attorney general and governor, in particular, gives you perspective of how a chief executive looks at the legislative branch.
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A subsequent floor debate in the legislative branch only led to an agreement to convene a panel on the topic later on.
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And it's not clear that the Republican Trump will have any more success with the legislative branch if he pushes that proposal himself.
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The circumvention of the legislative process undermines the authority of this branch, the legislative branch, but destabilized the tripartite system as a whole.
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Now, he seems to recognize that Congress won't help him get the border wall and going around the legislative branch isn't so easy.
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The suit amounts to Trump, the leader of the executive branch, asking the judicial branch to stop the legislative branch from investigating him.
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Of course, one fundamental purpose of a judiciary enforcing a constitution is to stop the legislative branch from burdening people with oppressive laws.
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The two entities primarily responsible for facilitating our political system, a free press and the legislative branch, score the worst of the batch.
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Congress could pass a law reinstating an independent investigator in the executive or legislative branch, though Mr. Trump would have to sign it.
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The legislative branch has been asserting itself quite a bit in the Trump era even though the president's own party controls both chambers.
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In other words, the executive branch, through DACA, deliberately sought to achieve what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions.
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By its simplest definition, the legislative branch makes the laws, the executive branch enforces the laws and the judicial branch interprets the laws.
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And yet, the President of the United States feels entirely comfortable urging the legislative branch to open an investigation into the Fourth Estate.
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At noon, senators will move to consider the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act of 6900.
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Last year, congressional offices on both sides of the aisle requested nearly 100 fellows, roughly triple the number available for the legislative branch.
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"The Mexican government will maintain a permanent dialogue with the Legislative Branch of [the United States] to support said solution," read the statement.
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This year's legislative branch appropriations bill does not currently include language that blocks an annual cost-of-living adjustment like in past years.
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It will also include legislation covering energy and water, the State Department and Foreign Operations spending bills and funding for the legislative branch.
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Warner's would withhold funding for the legislative branch and the Executive Office of the President in an attempt to motivate lawmakers to negotiate.
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But you won't find a word about this in Article II of the Constitution, which spells out the power of the legislative branch.
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The plank released Thursday calls on the legislative branch to restore its authority over what Republicans see as executive overreach under President Obama.
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Al Franken's (D-Minn.) comments are any indication (and I believe they are), the legislative branch is ready to meet this particular challenge.
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Two years ago, Holt introduced an amendment to the legislative branch spending bill of 2015 that would allocate funds to do precisely that.
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It remains to be seen what weight the courts accord the interest of the legislative branch in effective oversight of the executive branch.
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Congress – sexual harassment: Lawmakers from the House and Senate reached a compromise on how to handle sexual harassment cases in the legislative branch.
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However, if we implemented a hundred percent e-voting democracy, the US legislative branch would be far more powerful than the US president.
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The bill includes funding for the Departments of Defense, Energy and Veterans Affairs, as well as legislative branch operations like the Capitol Police.
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"We believe that Article I, the legislative branch, has the responsibility of oversight of our democracy, and we will exercise that," she said.
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The country's legislative branch is known as the United States Congress, and it comprises two chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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The question today is who will take the lead — the executive branch, the legislative branch, or maybe a cross-section of agricultural leaders.
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In the interests of justice and the public interest, Mueller should be allowed to complete his work without executive or legislative branch interference.
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"What really came across was a sense of disdain and contempt for the legislative branch," said Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia.
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Constitutionally, this belongs in the hands of the legislative branch and, by extension, the American people who vote members of Congress into office.
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The staff of the legislative branch of government are as dedicated to public service as those who wear the uniform of our nation.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces laws against workplace discrimination, has no jurisdiction over the legislative branch due to separation of powers.
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In response, Pelosi wrote a letter to Democrats on the House legislative branch appropriations subcommittee saying that the funding should simply be eliminated.
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In the event of funding showdowns, his approach would be to maintain spending for all but the legislative branch and the White House.
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He served as a member in the country's National Assembly — its legislative branch — before serving as Chavez's foreign minister for about seven years.
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But instead the legislative branch did not act at all, allowing first Barack Obama and then Trump to make policy on their own.
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Sometimes, it seems like the Supreme Court is merely another legislative branch, one more powerful than Congress but even less accountable to voters.
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Senators voted 86-5 to approve a 'minibus,' which merged funding for energy and water, the legislative branch and military construction and veterans affairs.
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The executive branch might be legally obligated to submit a budget, but the legislative branch has no legal obligation to pay attention to it.
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On April 7th the legislative branch tried a different approach, when the draft text of a bill that aims to regulate cryptography appeared online.
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Our American system depends on a web of checks and balances not just between the branches of government but within the Legislative Branch itself.
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But if he wants to change NAFTA substantively on issues like labor regulations, then the legislative branch will most likely have to be involved.
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The two sides characterized their meeting as constructive and positive, a rare achievement for an executive and legislative branch often warring with each other.
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But it would withhold funding for the legislative branch and the Executive Office of the President in an effort to encourage lawmakers to negotiate.
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The measure would withhold funding for the legislative branch and the Executive Office of the President in an attempt to motivate lawmakers to negotiate.
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McConnell would take the responsibility as the leader of the co-equal branch of government, the legislative branch, and send this to the president.
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Trump's casual relationship with the truth makes his calls for the legislative branch to investigate the allegedly "fake news" industry all the more outlandish.
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Senators voted 28500-6900 to approve a "minibus," which merged funding for energy and water, the legislative branch and military construction and veterans affairs.
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The House is still slated to consider the rest of an appropriations package for other agencies, but not the section concerning legislative branch operations.
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The 22019 percent of Americans who trust the legislative branch is in line with the 42 percent who said they trust the executive branch.
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Most members of Congress have been reluctant to call for increasing their salaries amid gridlock and low public approval ratings of the legislative branch.
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Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, view Trump's resistance as an existential threat to the separation of powers and the co-equal status of the legislative branch.
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The remaining agencies, like the Pentagon, the legislative branch and the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Education, are funded through Sept.
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The argument that this very independence is inconsistent with a unitary executive becomes more persuasive when IGs act on behalf of the legislative branch.
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The legislative branch came to life One of the most disturbing spectacles of the Trump era has been the crumbling of the Congressional spine.
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That makes it formally a part of the legislative branch, even though the office of Librarian of Congress is actually appointed by the president.
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Senators and representatives are legislators, so maybe insisting on the president's deference to the legislative branch is a matter of the rule of law.
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Next week, the House will vote on whether to hold Barr in contempt for defying the constitutional role of oversight by the legislative branch.
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The Trump administration hasn't either, bypassing the legislative branch as it negotiated billions of dollars in arms deals, and as it conducted military operations.
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Restoring balance back to the legislative branch is critical, but that cannot come from returning to an opaque and publicly derided process like earmarks.
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Forty-seven percent responded that they would prefer a GOP-controlled Congress, while 40 percent said they want a legislative branch held by Democrats.
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If the Supreme Court were to allow the Trump administration to end DACA, Mr. Ayres said, the focus would shift to the legislative branch.
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And immigration is only the best example of how the legislative branch has become weak through inaction on policy as well as on spending.
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Congressional leaders did their due diligence to make sure the administration was aware the legislative branch was tracking the progress of the bill. Sens.
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Grassley said it goes against the U.S. Constitution by misrepresenting how Congress functions and trying to tell the legislative branch how to do its job.
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" The Antideficiency Act bans the federal government from spending money not appropriated by the legislative branch — and essentially grants Congress its "power of the purse.
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This fledging constitutional showdown might ultimately have to decide how much oversight the legislative branch is allowed to exercise over the president and his administration.
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Grassley penned the 1995 Congressional Accountability Act, which enacted civil rights, labor, workplace safety, and health laws to Congress and agencies under the legislative branch.
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And I think he&aposs going to impose on the Justice Department doing their job of turning over legitimate appropriate information to the legislative branch.
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Earlier this year, my organization worked with other policy advocates to speak out about the need for legislative branch funding to pay Capitol Hill interns.
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"There simply is no functioning legislative branch check on executive power, so these promises are made, but there's no enforcement mechanism either way," Rojansky said.
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Once codified, the legislative branch will authorize the relevant executive department or agency to determine whether specific regulations are necessary to give the law effect.
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There is still much that the members of the legislative branch must do before the November election, particularly as it relates to budgeting and appropriations.
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The wall funding was added to a measure that combined funding bills for the Pentagon, energy and water, legislative branch, military construction and Veterans Affairs.
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The alliance projected that it has at least 255 out of 500 seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Thailand's legislative branch.
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Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), the ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, which sent the bill to the full committee on Friday.
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"We have, however, been able to continue our work with the legislative branch, meeting with members of Congress, including the new freshmen class," McGreevy said.
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No matter the outcome, the legislative branch has made affirmative decisions about this issue repeatedly, precisely fulfilling the constitutional order as the Framers designed it.
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It also marked a shift of foreign agricultural labor policy from the executive branch to the legislative branch of government, where little has been accomplished.
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But after decades of the legislative branch willingly deferring its lawmaking powers to the administrative state in pursuit of shinier prizes, Congress has weakened itself.
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Speier successfully added an amendment to an annual legislative branch appropriations bill three years ago to require sexual harassment awareness training for members and staff.
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Federal pay audits undertaken by the Government Accountability Office and Office of Personnel Management excluded Capitol Hill because it is part of the legislative branch.
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A version of her bill was later added as a provision in the appropriations bill for the legislative branch, which includes the Library of Congress.
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Employment of this full process is exceedingly rare because the legislative branch often loses in federal court, which weakens the power of future subpoena threats.
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Many laws Mr. Obama championed were nearly all shot down because of the winner take all mentality that seemed to have engulfed our legislative branch.
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But since GOP leaders have control over the amendment process for the legislative branch measure, Maloney's amendment is unlikely to get another vote this time.
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The House so far has passed two of the 12 annual appropriations bills: measures to fund legislative branch operations and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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In the mid-1970s, the combination of unpopular presidents and an assertive Congress led to a series of efforts to rein in the legislative branch.
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Democrats are arguing that Trump's executive branch is keeping the legislative branch from doing its legal job of oversight by withholding all information from them.
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Since Congress holds the power to authorize federal spending, as designated by the Constitution, Trump's efforts could be seen as going around the legislative branch.
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Those bills funded the departments of Labor, Energy, Defense, Health and Human Services, Education, Veterans Affairs and the legislative branch — so they will remain unaffected.
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The House Republicans argued that the administration violated the U.S. Constitution because it is the legislative branch, not the executive branch, that authorizes government spending.
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Discuss the Kavanaugh battle in the larger context of the need for a responsible legislative branch to hold this out-of-control executive branch accountable.
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It is especially troubling that — once again — the Trump administration is making an end-run around the legislative branch in pursuit of extreme immigration policies.
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In the meantime, they can move the legislative branch appropriations bill because it has always been considered under a limited amendment process in recent years.
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In his letter, Cipollone argued that the courts have long respected the executive branch's right to conduct foreign policy without interference from the legislative branch.
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But in marking up the 2019 legislative branch funding bill, which covers congressional operations, the five-year period for funding was reduced to one year.
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Other aspects of the senator's plan — such providing executive branch guidance on who qualifies for fair housing protections — do not require the legislative branch, however.
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Control of the legislative branch will near-certainly make it easier for President-elect Donald Trump to pursue significant policy change (repealing Obamacare, for example).
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"While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will," he concluded.
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The House Republicans argued that the administration's action violated the U.S. Constitution because it is the legislative branch, not the executive branch, that authorizes government spending.
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The power of the legislative branch may have taken a big hit Friday, but there is a silver lining for Congress — or at least House Democrats.
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But Murphy has fought back against the proposal, saying it would upset the balance of power between him and the legislative branch of the state government.
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"I think right now it depends on what the FCC does, and it's highly unlikely that the legislative branch is going to go first," said Schatz.
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Fifty percent of those surveyed said they want Democrats to control the legislative branch, while 42 percent said they want Republicans to retain control of Congress.
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"We always have great respect for what the legislative branch does," Pompeo said alongside Defense Secretary James Mattis and their Canadian counterparts at The State Department.
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"The power of the purse is among the most essential powers of the Legislative Branch," acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler argued in court papers.
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Mark Meadows, chairman of the conservative Freedom Caucus, introduced the amendment, which was attached to an annual spending bill that in part funds the legislative branch.
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Democrats will have to pick up 23 seats in the November elections to win back the House and end total GOP control over the legislative branch.
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Because Trump was a vociferous critic of then-President Barack Obama's use of executive orders -- casting them as a purposeful end-run of the legislative branch.
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Congress should extend the committee through the end of next year on Capitol Hill, so that it can continue seizing opportunities to strengthen the legislative branch.
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The committee should give all of us optimism for the ability of the legislative branch to overcome its dysfunction and address the challenges facing our nation.
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"We expect the administration to comply with our document requests as a matter of form for the executive branch and our legislative branch oversight," Ryan said.
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Some Trump allies in Congress are urging the president and the legislative branch to take new action to probe what they perceive as intelligence agency excesses.
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Should Donald Trump win the White House, which at this point seems rather unlikely, one unexpected benefit would be the resurgent power of the legislative branch.
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"Bill and Melinda have a long history of engaging the executive branch, the legislative branch, in a bipartisan way, I don't see that changing," Nabors said.
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Legislative branch cuts were a kind of self-flagellation intended to appeal to unhappy voters, but they've just made Congress weaker, without making it more popular.
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"The American people do not need more emotional, condescending lectures that are completely devoid of facts," said Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA's legislative branch.
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Barry Loudermilk of Georgia argued that Republicans in Congress still have to call out the President when necessary, given the oversight role of the legislative branch.
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A growing number of GOP senators believe a precedent Trump set with his declaration presents long-term hazards for the legislative branch and for future presidents.
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The "actions today constitute a massive power grab, with sweeping changes that only the legislative branch has the authority to enact," she said in a statement.
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The fact that Democrats in Congress have joined Republicans in this embrace of executive power does not mean the legislative branch does not have immense authority.
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In the broader battle for control of Congress, 49 percent of likely voters said they want a Democratic legislative branch, versus 5713 percent who prefer Republicans.
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The more IGs function under the direction of, and in response to, Congress, the more they appear to be functioning as part of the legislative branch.
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Its first report, from May 2003, offers a blueprint that Congress could follow to ensure that the legislative branch continues to function even amid a pandemic.
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The legislative branch, reeling from the recent arbitrary removal of six pro-democracy legislators, may soon also be made into a servile tool of the government.
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"It simply makes clear that only the Legislative Branch may declare war or commit our armed forces to a sustained military conflict with Iran," she said.
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The legislative branch, whose members are elected by the people, is an important if not vital element in the stability and longevity of the Islamic Republic.
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In my opinion, the legislative branch has given too much power to the president and not done an effective enough job of preserving its own powers.
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The national security-themed package will also include funding for the departments of Energy and Defense, as well as legislative branch programs like the Capitol Police.
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Nonetheless, lawmakers felt it was important to pass the resolution under the Congressional Review Act to show that the legislative branch doesn't approve of the regulation.
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Midday, the heads of the FBI, CIA and NSA, alongside the Director of National Intelligence cosigned a letter imploring the Legislative Branch to reauthorize the prograam.
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It will trigger a bitter and potentially long battle in the courts to adjudicate whether the executive branch or the legislative branch of the government will prevail.
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"When we stand back and we don't challenge the executive, we get what we get, which is a weakened legislative branch and an empowered executive," said Sen.
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A quick civics primer: The legislative branch of government manages the nation's purse strings, allocating money to federal agencies and authorizing how those funds can be used.
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And at that point, this President may learn just how imperial the legislative branch can be when it puts its mind to taking on the White House.
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The Democrats in Congress think their challenge may stand the best chance, because the Constitution grants the legislative branch the explicit responsibility of sanctioning any foreign gifts.
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You may have forgotten amid this year's spectacle of Donald Trump, but the U.S. government also includes a legislative branch, composed of the House and the Senate.
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Now that the executive branch has succeeded where the legislative branch has failed, it is time for the judicial branch to weigh in once and for all.
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"Many of the regulations are directly implementing statutes passed by Congress, and that could require the legislative branch to produce legislation repealing the authorizing statute," they wrote.
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"If uncorrected, the Seventh Circuit's decision will threaten the independence of the legislative function by granting the Executive undue power over its coequal Legislative Branch," he said.
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"The autonomy of the legislative branch is not up for discussion, and for that reason #Amnestyislaw," wrote the National Assembly's leadership via the institution's official Twitter account.
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The committee, established this year to study ways to enhance the functioning of Congress, was holding a hearing on improving civility and collaboration in the legislative branch.
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During a hearing on Sunday, opposition leaders said the electoral commission's decision represented a "rupture of constitutional order" and a de facto coup of the legislative branch.
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Other amendments submitted to the legislative branch appropriations bill include proposals from Democrats to withhold funds for the select committees investigating the Benghazi attack and abortion practices.
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The Trump administration and its allies have offered varying explanations for why the president blinked, none of which hinge on getting buy-in from the legislative branch.
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The FY 2016 legislative branch budget allocated $870 million for the Senate and $1.18 billion for the House, for a total of $2.05 billion for both branches.
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The simple reason is that they take away expertise from the legislative branch and empower the executive branch and private lobbyists, who gain a comparative expertise advantage.
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Until the legislative branch takes back its intended authority, and remembers how to function, the very existence of the machine will tempt its operator with autocratic power.
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Reliance by the legislative branch on a nonbinding resolution to try to cut off military hostilities under the War Powers Act has not been tested in court.
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Thus, while the executive branch may enjoy immense powers of initiative in national security affairs, the legislative branch nonetheless possesses its own authority to shape foreign policy.
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"To fire Mueller without cause, I don't know if there is any other remedy left to the legislative branch" besides impeaching the president, Flake told the Post.
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In recent years, one of the bright spots in the legislative branch has been the bipartisan spirit that infuses the work of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Regular, transparent reporting of claims and awards against members and legislative branch offices was commonplace in the early years of the act's implementation through its annual report.
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If the Department of Justice resists, we could end up in a legal battle pitting the legislative branch and its core oversight function against the executive branch.
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Such monumental decisions should not be left to any single person — that is why our Constitution vests the authority to make such judgements in the legislative branch.
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"It is pressure that should never be brought to bear by an official when the legislative branch is in the process of an investigation," Ms. Feinstein said.
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But there have been moments in history where the legislative branch seeks to assert its power and relevance, particularly with respect to the military and foreign engagement.
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They discussed creating a legislative branch chief data officer to improve congressional and public access to legislative information and to facilitate the emergence of legislative data standards.
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Forty-eight percent of likely voters said they wanted a legislative branch controlled by the GOP, while 45 percent responded that they prefer a Democratic majority in Congress.
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The House plans to vote Friday on the first bill — the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2019.
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Forty-seven percent of likely voters said they would rather see the party control the legislative branch after November, while 46 percent said they prefer a Republican majority.
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The provision will be part of the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, which the two chambers are discussing this week.
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By doing away with the opposition-controlled legislative branch, the move effectively meant the remaining two branches of Venezuelan government were controlled by the ruling United Socialist Party.
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He feels very strongly, actually, that — that, under President Obama's watch, he stripped a lot of power away from the Constitution, away from the legislative branch of government.
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"The President is more popular than anyone in Congress," a White House official said, an apparent reference to the overall popularity of the legislative branch on the whole.
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It was further cited as the inspiration for a new bill by the Knesset (Israel's legislative branch) that bans groups critical of the Israeli army from entering schools.
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The first of three FY-19 minibus appropriations packages, the legislation includes funding bills for Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Energy and Water Development, and the legislative branch.
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One of Congress's most prominent voices on defense issues, McCain for years has decried the "military-industrial-congressional complex," the influence of defense contractors on the legislative branch.
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While it needs more capacity, the legislative branch also must be subject to augmented sanctions — directed at members of congress themselves — when it is derelict in its duty.
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It's a starting point for "trying to get the legislative branch back in the business of nuclear policy," Bell told me, and it's particularly well-suited to that.
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Instead of through personal injury litigation, opioid abuse and addiction issues are best left to the legislative branch for areas that fall within the proper role of government.
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House Democratic leaders originally planned to consider a spending bill for legislative branch operations this month that would allow lawmakers to receive a $4,500 pay raise in January.
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The Senate last month passed its first package of government funding bills, which merged money for energy and water, the legislative branch and military construction and veterans affairs.
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In many areas, it has reduced the legislative branch to a mere pedestrian in government, leaving real governing decisions to a kind of "fourth branch" of federal agencies.
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Each year, the consumer bureau is asked to submit reports to Congress and undergo an audit from the Governmental Accountability Office, an investigative agency in the legislative branch.
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Our system isn't really all that republican anymore; it's imperial, and even an incompetent emperor like Trump is unlikely to restore the legislative branch to its former influence.
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In our system of government, most of the power to make foreign policy decisions rests with the executive branch, with some power also given to the legislative branch.
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Holding that federal law doesn't bar sexual-orientation-based discrimination would be a fundamentally conservative ruling both in its politics and in its deference to the legislative branch.
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A 28503 spending bill for legislative branch operations, typically one of the easiest of the 22019 annual appropriations bills to pass, could hit the House floor next week.
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The Congressional Accountability Act of 85033 established workplace safety laws for the legislative branch, but doesn't require Capitol Hill offices to adhere to certain notice and training requirements.
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As the White House succeeds in holding off congressional attempts at removing Trump from office, Barr is winning his long war on the power of the legislative branch.
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"Legal authorities and the legislative branch of the government should move swiftly to discuss a new legal system and mechanism to prevent escapes," he told state broadcaster NHK.
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Whether such a proposal could pass Congress remains unclear, as even some of the narrowest proposals for increased gun control have stalled out in the US legislative branch.
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Two days after Morales resigned, Jeanine Áñez swore herself into power as interim president without the requisite presence of the legislative branch, which is still controlled by MAS.
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"No court and certainly no executive branch agency has the constitutional power to tell the legislative branch it is or is not formally in an impeachment inquiry," Rep.
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"The giving patterns may change depending on the key issues most important to the physician PACs as well as the political composition of the legislative branch," he said.
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The most important task of the legislative branch at this point seems to be approving (or not, in the infamous case of Merrick Garland) the president's judicial appointments.
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The exact source of the money is still a question: The spokesperson told me that money for the fund is not included in the yearly legislative branch appropriations budgets.
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The legislative branch, not the executive branch, writes these laws – this is the bedrock of our Constitutional system, which I took a solemn oath to preserve, protect, and defend.
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Now Republicans control the legislative branch, and many liberals have cheered Mr. Obama's executive actions as a way to get things done despite what they see as congressional obstructionism.
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Under a Republican one, leadership would switch and the new FCC would unite the interests of the desperate broadband industry, the slighted FTC and the vengeful conservative Legislative branch.
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Norton's bill would require the legislative branch to follow the same anti-discrimination and federal whistleblower laws which are currently in place for private businesses and the executive branch.
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Outrage erupted across the nation and people realized that there truly is something more pathetic than a panda that's too lazy to bone—the legislative branch of our government.
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The question we wrestle with when talking about term limits is whether such a system would strengthen a pitifully weak legislative branch after a century of executive branch expansion.
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Ryan — who, as the top Democrat on the House's Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, helped spearhead the effort to lock down congressional intern pay — highlighted it as a diversity issue.
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The legislative branch is among the most unpopular institutions in the country, but people shouldn't just hate it, they should be demanding that it change on a fundamental level.
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Yet the results do underscore just how hard it will be for Sanders allies hoping to reshape the legislative branch, like the Brand New Congress PAC, to actually succeed.
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One of the reasons that the OCE vote became a major story is because it happened in the legislative branch, a place that is usually accountable to its constituents.
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In the era when relations in Congress were gradually breaking down over the issue of slavery, friends and colleagues in the legislative branch often inflicted violence on each other.
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Congress was notified last week of the sale, which was initially negotiated under the Obama administration, and the legislative branch has 30 days to vote to block the sale.
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The legislative branch is seen by some as a weak institution, important mostly for its ability to influence the agencies of the executive branch (where the real power is).
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While status quo is not always the ideal, at least it means no further damage to our individual rights or system of government, at least from the legislative branch.
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The tales of unethical behavior and secret "hush money" deals have rightly spurred the U.S. House of Representatives to overhaul sexual harassment and discrimination oversight in the legislative branch.
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"This is something that was clearly set out in the Constitution as the role of the legislative branch," she says of the power to direct spending to specific projects.
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"He feels very strongly, actually, that, under President Obama's watch, he stripped a lot of power away from the Constitution, away from the legislative branch of government," Ryan said.
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Those bills provided a combined $1 trillion in funding for the Pentagon and Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Veterans Affairs and the legislative branch, among others.
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"It is pressure that should never be brought to bear by an official when the legislative branch is in the process of an investigation," Feinstein was quoted as saying.
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I decided to continue the fight to protect taxpayer dollars by taking it a step further and by not only limiting the Legislative Branch, but also the Executive Branch.
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Womack had openly speculated about possibly leaving his perch atop the Budget Committee in favor of becoming an appropriations cardinal, but expressed reservations about leading the legislative branch panel.
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The House Rules Committee is scheduled to debate the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act on Tuesday and consider amendments on Wednesday.
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" The senator later clarified his remarks to emphasize the independence of the legislative branch, saying Trump was "the best president I've served 'under' in terms of line of succession.
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We cannot let partisan politics relegate the legislative branch of the United States to the sidelines as communities, local governments, and private industry grapples with an increasingly existential threat.
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With Republicans now in control of Congress and Donald Trump in the White House, there are no less than ten CRA actions winding their way through the legislative branch.
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After the three countries come to an agreement in principle — which they're hoping to do by May 4 — the legislative branch of each country has to approve the agreement.
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"While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will," Ryan said in a statement.
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The House is in the midst of debating the annual spending bill for legislative branch operations, which maintains the lawmaker pay freeze that has been in place since 220006.
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There's a reason special interests and lobbyists have become so powerful in Washington, and that's because the federal government, and especially the legislative branch, has cut its own capacity.
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Others argue that failing to impeach would effectively signal to this president and his successors that serious misdeeds will be tolerated by a legislative branch fearful of political consequence.
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"The House rushed through what should have been one of the most serious, consequential undertakings of a legislative branch, simply to meet an artificial, self-imposed deadline," she said.
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In that sense, Puzder is the first instance in which the legislative branch – even one controlled by the president's own, albeit recently adopted, party – has said no to him.
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"When I hear Trump saying things like, 'I'll just do XYZ,' without seemingly any regard for the legislative branch," Mr. Price told the group, "it gives me some thought."
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With the Supreme Court (the judicial branch), the president (the executive branch) gets to nominate justices while the Senate (the legislative branch) has the power to confirm those nominations.
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The legislative branch, not the executive branch, writes these laws – this is the bedrock of our Constitutional system, which I took a solemn oath to preserve, protect, and defend.
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"What we're doing here is doing our duty as a legislative branch of government, by checking the potential, possible conflicts of interest in the executive branch of government," Rep.
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Pelosi and Lowey were planning on having a Democrat offer an amendment to do that when the legislative branch funding bill is marked up in the Appropriations panel Tuesday.
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Systemically, the Constitution gives the Executive Branch (through the President) the power to nominate justices to the Supreme Court, while the Legislative Branch (Congress) can confirm or reject those nominations.
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In our system, the legislative branch is empowered to enact and amend laws, and the judicial branch has long had the authority to review and strike down acts of Congress.
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Smith, whose campaign says she raised $100,000 in the day after announcing her bid for Congress, won her seat in the lower house of California's legislative branch only last year.
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"The Trump administration has its hands full with a plethora of conflicts with the legislative branch of government," said Mark Kastel, co-founder of the organic watchdog group Cornucopia Institute.
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For much of the last decade, however, the legislative branch has unfortunately done the opposite by actually cutting funding to the one governmental agency that could help fill federal coffers.
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The 2019 Legislative Branch bill allocates $8.8 million for the House, which translates to each member having up to $0003,000 per calendar year they can use to have paid interns.
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"It is a very fluid environment right now - both in terms of the executive branch and potential actions from the executive branch could take and the legislative branch," he said.
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"While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the President is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will," Ryan said in a statement Monday.
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Having an independent body of scientists to provide guidance, advices and recommendations regarding our nuclear stockpiles and weapons systems is invaluable to decisionmakers in both the Executive and Legislative Branch.
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DERSHOWITZ: They idea that the Justice Department can threaten to issue subpoenas in retaliation for the legislative branch performing its duty to oversee the executive branch should frighten every American.
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He of course won't back down, but he needs to move forward in a way that both satisfies his base and the legislative branch while easing concerns from wary Republicans.
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Texas et al -- on behalf of the entire House of Representatives was more about preserving the position of the legislative branch of government than advocating his party's position on immigration.
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That basic fact—that the Republicans are in control of the legislative branch as well as the executive branch—means that the rest of Trump's statement is just as nutty.
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Warner on Tuesday introduced a bill that would automatically renew funding for all federal departments but the legislative branch and White House if Congress fails to reach a new deal.
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"The most important thing to do is proceed in a way that resolves the appropriate role of the legislative branch versus the executive branch," Pomeroy said, referring to the courts.
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"What we're doing here is doing our duty as a legislative branch of government, by checking the potential, possible conflicts of interest in the executive branch of government," said Rep.
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A Gallup poll found that 6900 percent of Americans have either a "fair amount" or "great deal" of trust in the legislative branch, up from 2628 percent a year ago.
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Later, the House passed the compromise bill for military construction and veterans' affairs, the legislative branch and energy and water funding, sending the first so-called minibus to Trump's desk.
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The second and third limits on presidential power are Congress and the public, and because of the representative nature of the legislative branch, these limits often go hand-in-hand.
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House Democrats passed their 10 spending bills on the floor — encompassing all agencies except for the Department of Homeland Security and legislative branch operations — before the budget deal was reached.
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Senators are scheduled to take a final vote Monday evening on a "mini-bus" that combines funding for energy and water, the legislative branch and military construction and veterans affairs.
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Barr will also have to answer to the legislative branch on other controversial topics, such as the administration's immigrant family separation policies, on which Whitaker was grilled earlier this month.
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Steve King (R-Iowa) filed the amendment to the annual spending bill for legislative branch operations, which is expected to get a vote on the House floor later this week.
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Bob Packwood resigned in disgrace over harassment claims, still has a ways to go to address the underlying dynamics that make the legislative branch an environment ripe for inappropriate behavior.
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The congressional vote against the resolution could be used in court to demonstrate just how much opposition there is from the legislative branch to Trump's actions, legal experts told Vox.
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But even at more than 103% of the Democratic caucus, that's still less than a third of the full House, not to mention Democrats control only half the Legislative Branch.
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But those developments have done little to improve the way Americans think and feel about the legislative branch — and it's little wonder why, given the tone of the presidential race.
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Despite deep divisions over the years, these gatherings have taken place as the legislative branch listens to the head of the executive branch on the state of our government. Rep.
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Seeking judicial review now appears to be impeachable, and there is a line of presidents who should have been removed for asking courts to resolve conflicts with the legislative branch.
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For a legislative branch all too accustomed to avoiding the field for the safety of the sidelines, this is quite a big leap for a single legislator to pull off.
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As important as the executive and judiciary are, the legislative branch is where so many of our priorities get determined, from spending decisions to laws protecting the social safety net.
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The remaining eight measures will comprise the second "minibus," including: Agriculture-FDA, Labor-HHS-Education, Energy-Water, Interior-Environment, State-Foreign Operations, Transportation-HUD, Military Construction-VA and Legislative Branch.
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"This is a question of where you stand as it relates to the constitutional authorities of the legislative branch and what they're working on is purely a distraction," Schatz said.
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The Constitution specifically provides for impeachment in both Articles I (establishing the legislative branch) and II (establishing the presidency and executive branch) as the government's method to remove corrupt officials.
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With the legislative branch impotent and hollowed out, the executive branch—and the president who sits atop it—increasingly makes and carries out the policy decisions that shape American lives.
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The next chairman must insist that the legislative branch is not only consulted and informed, but also asserts its prerogatives and actually votes on the wars our soldiers fight. Sen.
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There I really understood on a very granular level how important it was to have representation both in the legislative branch and the executive branch that cared about those issues.
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Having her totally unchecked by the legislative branch would allow an expansion of a federal government that they already think has grown far too big and does far too much.
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Earlier Thursday, Ryan and other GOP leaders unveiled at proposal to reassert the authority of the legislative branch in response to what they view is executive overreach by President Barack Obama.
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His comments were an early sign that the judicial branch could seek to side with the legislative branch as it faces multiple demands to referee Congress's showdown with the White House.
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But it&aposs rare that the justice department doesn&apost go after somebody and enforce a subpoena so we may see a conflict between this justice department and the legislative branch.
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Unlike subpoena fights between the executive branch and legislative branch that have gone to court over the last decade or so, fights over IRS statute 6103 are untested in the courts.
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"The people of Minnesota will no longer have a voice in the legislative branch after the first of the year, not to mention the pain inflicted on our employees," he said.
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Getting to this level of the legislative branch is so grueling for women that by the time they arrive they might very well expect those around them to have sacrificed, too.
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"Just look at how volatile, partisan and harsh the political environment in the legislative branch has become since the era of trying to do things with just one party," said Rep.
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In 1995, Congress passed the Congressional Accountability Act requiring the legislative branch to follow numerous workplace health and safety laws, but exempted legislative offices from following several notice and training requirements.
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Democrats are spoiling for a fight over Social Security and Medicare — programs that Trump voters benefit from, but most Republicans (including the ones leading the legislative branch) are itching to overhaul.
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At the same time, the legislative branch is leading the charge to ensure that the current and future occupants of the White House perform due diligence before enacting another single regulation.
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Trump's use of the orders, Republicans say, are an effort to roll back Obama's orders, but are unique given how the President's Republican Party controls both sides of the legislative branch.
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Lack of regulation, a choice made in large part by the legislative branch of our government, has allowed incentive structures to be created which resulted in the system we have today.
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There may or may not be political benefit here—fighting one's own party, especially one's own party's leadership, often plays well in a country that really, really hates its legislative branch.
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Yet if the path toward impeachment is becoming easier to imagine, there still remain formidable political hurdles to such an outcome because of the Republican Party's grip on the legislative branch.
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Such actions may quickly remind the occupant of the bully pulpit that neither the Founding Fathers nor the presiding Speaker intend for the legislative branch to be subservient to the executive.
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House appropriators also released a spending bill for 2018 legislative branch operations last week that would increase funding for the Capitol Police by $29.2 million compared to the current spending level.
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In response, Gillibrand and Speier have introduced the Me Too Congress Act to restructure the sole complaint process available to legislative branch employees to make it more effective and better known.
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In order to qualify as an HDP partner, candidate countries must prove that they have the desire and ability to develop basic institutions and create a strong and free legislative branch.
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Our founders envisioned a strong legislative branch that would jealously guard the power of the purse, with the House of Representatives acting to ensure the peoples' money would be spent wisely.
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The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, a nonpartisan legislative branch agency that provides data to Congress, estimates that by July, every single state will have exhausted all CHIP funds.
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Most troubling to Mr. Shaub, now senior counsel at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, is that the move seems like an attempt by the executive branch to overrule the legislative branch.
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The law applies to portraits of the President, the Vice President, a member of Congress, the head of an executive agency, or the head of an office of the legislative branch.
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We believe strongly that leadership and robust communication between the legislative branch, executive branch, and the private sector are critical to ensuring progress and sustainability for our nation's medical countermeasure ecosystem.
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The judiciary, the legislative branch and fourth estate – institutions ennobled by the framers of the Constitution and its Bill of Rights – have delineated important limits to the reality-TV star's governance.
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The spending package on the floor this week only includes money for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Energy, legislative branch operations and the Defense Department, along with the wall.
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True, on many of the day-to-day, routine matters that Congress is called to address, Members from both parties work together and carry out the responsibilities of the legislative branch.
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House appropriators unveiled a spending bill for legislative branch operations the day before that would increase funding for the Capitol Police by $29.2 million compared to the current enacted spending level.
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It's actually a bipartisan victory — and a victory of the legislative branch over the executive branch because both Obama and Trump proposed less than the Republicans and Democrats [in Congress] wanted.
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The Democratic senator — alleging a violation of separation of powers — is suing the executive branch in an attempt to get the judicial branch to stop a vote of the legislative branch.
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"The Republicans have been spending eight years complaining about the executive branch usurping legislative branch power and here's their first move from the new administration is to ignore us on something," Rep.
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A real judge respects that the legislative branch has their job and their job is to take the exact text and the Constitution&aposs exact text and see where the line is.
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And some elected officials are asserting that departments' interpretation of Title IX, the federal anti-discrimination law in education, is actually an expansion that can only be done by the legislative branch.
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"The president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will," Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan said in a statement before the White House announcement.
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"I think all those things need to be addressed as we go forward but not least of which is the response by the legislative branch with respect to the issue," he said.
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"My brother and sister legislators from Santa Monica warned me that that phenomenon has hit their cities," said Aaron Peskin, who is on San Francisco's board of supervisors, the city's legislative branch.
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The legislation is expected to be finalized early in the week and would provide funding for the Department of Energy, the Department of Veteran Affairs and fund the legislative branch through 2019.
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Ignorant of how the legislative branch works, he let the Republican leaders set the priorities and was surprised that even though his party had the majority, Congress wasn't more deferential to him.
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Where is the constituency for a legislative branch that is effectively gathering new information, attending to new problems, and producing new legislation based on professional, nonpartisan analysis about what the country needs?
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In school, students are taught about the three branches of the federal government: The legislative branch makes the laws; the executive branch enforces the laws; and the judicial branch interprets the laws.
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"I would offer that I think we need to have a serious discussion, frankly, in conjunction with the executive branch and legislative branch, to look at this issue of content," Nielsen said.
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Unlike with most other annual appropriations bills, the legislative branch measure has been considered under a limited amendment process in recent years, wherein House GOP leaders decide which proposals get floor time.
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So, on Wednesday, a case about property taxes took on more lofty concerns, touching on separation of powers and the independence of the 51-member legislative branch to differ with the mayor.
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The ruling said that for an action of Congress to have legal effect outside the legislative branch, it had to be submitted to the president for signature or veto like a bill.
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Although the Constitution has established Congress as the body with the ability to declare war, the legislative branch has ceded more and more of its authority to the president over the years.
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This leaves the legislative branch, which still has opportunity to advance juvenile justice reform this week by passing the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) through the Senate.
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The creation of the Senate, which together with the existing National Assembly will make up a two-chamber Congress, marks an expansion of the president's influence over the legislative branch of government.
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The opposition's celebration was short-lived, however, since reforms enacted before the new Assembly was sworn in took power away from the legislative branch and handed it to the Maduro-controlled judiciary.
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If the President wins re-election in 2020, it will be precisely on the strength of his having attacked and undermined basic civic systems -- the free press, the courts, the legislative branch.
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In straying well beyond her role to decide only the cases and controversies before her, Judge Jackson has tilted the balance against the executive branch and in favor of the legislative branch.
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And it's a terrible omen not only for the chances of meaningful health coverage reform, it's a bad sign that the legislative branch is capable of handling much of anything at all.
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The power to challenge Congress in the courts makes concrete the abstract notion that no person or institution, including the legislative branch, is above the law and is subject to judicial resolution.
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But in the end the legislative branch must enforce its own subpoenas and the justice department must comply with that otherwise our separation of powers and checks and balances is really in trouble.
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The Republican-controlled legislative branch is "highly unlikely" to approve the proposed 10 percent tax cut for the middle class this year, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch told reporters, according to Politico.
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She says she's wrestling with the juxtaposition between Barr's impassioned writings about the innate power of the president and his attempts to make that view of executive power palatable to the legislative branch.
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At the federal level, the Senate voted to save the Title II protections in May using the Congressional Review Act that allows the legislative branch to override rule-making decisions by federal agencies.
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But by ignoring the need for a long-overdue increase in staff salaries and instead "holding the line" on the legislative branch spending bill, the senators effectively voted to further empower private lobbyists.
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Today a committee in the EU's legislative branch approved a proposed model copyright law that would likely lead many apps and websites to screen uploaded content using automated filters to detect copyrighted material.
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In the same vein as the case made by congressional Democrats, these suits argue that what Trump is doing is simply unconstitutional and a unilateral move aimed at going around the legislative branch.
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The three bills, Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, add up to $144.5 billion of the total $1.2 trillion in discretionary spending allowed by budget caps for 2019.
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In effect, Mr. Bolton and Mr. Kupperman are asking for a court ruling on competing demands by the executive branch, which does not want them to testify, and the legislative branch, which does.
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The three bills, Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, add up to $6900 billion of the total $2628 trillion in discretionary spending allowed by budget caps for 28503.
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The legislative branch funding bill, usually among the least controversial of the pack, was stripped out of an earlier "minibus" spending package because of disagreements over whether Congress should increase its own pay.
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If the presidential election were to be decided by the House of Representatives, we would see a powerful shift in both symbolic and institutional authority from the executive branch to the legislative branch.
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"We out of respect for the legislative branch being a separate branch, we do not commence investigations that focus on activities before Congress without Congress asking us to get involved," Comey said later.
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"Without action by this Court to prevent the Administration's usurpation of congressional authority, the unchecked expansion of the Executive's power at the expense of the Legislative Branch will threaten our democracy," it continues.
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But so far Congress has balked, declining to take on the difficult issue even as lawmakers such as Mr. Kaine insist that the legislative branch should reclaim its constitutional duty to declare war.
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The second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, sets forth uncontested facts about the President's ordering a blanket refusal of executive branch officials to comply with subpoenas duly issued by the legislative branch.
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Impeachment may actually become an almost tedious process for much of the rank-and-file public, stumbling toward a predictable stalemate between two entrenched sectors of both the electorate and the legislative branch.
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This year's legislative branch spending bill also includes a provision to reverse a decision made by the Library of Congress this year to stop using the term "illegal aliens" in its subject headings.
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The House voted to create the select committee at the start of the new Congress in January to come up with recommendations for modernizing the legislative branch by the end of the year.
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"I am a member of the legislative branch — I defend that institution," he said, adding, "Quite frankly, if you don't believe in the processes of your own institution, what are you doing there?"
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At Ryan's request, funding for the office was to be cut down from five years to one year in the legislative branch appropriations bill under consideration in the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday.
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A top Democrat from one of the other 11 subcommittees will likely switch roles to head that panel, which is considered more desirable to most lawmakers than subcommittees like the Legislative Branch panel.
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The legislative branch even mandated that legacy technology from the shuttle and Apollo programs be used to build the big rocket, the better to deny NASA any wiggle room to delay building it.
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"If it plays out the way it may play out, then we'll see significant and meaningful tactical changes in the relationship that in large part are driven by the legislative branch," Price said.
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The 2018 reelection of President Nicolás Maduro was disputed, and the National Assembly [the country's legislative branch] declared that the presidency should be filled in an interim way by the assembly's leader, Juan Guaidó.
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"Without action by this Court to prevent the Administration's usurpation of congressional authority, the unchecked expansion of the Executive's power at the expense of the Legislative Branch will threaten our democracy," the brief adds.
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Executive For years, a small chorus in Congress has bemoaned the legislative branch giving back its national security powers to the executive, from war-making to the budget caps imposed by the sequestration law.
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Warner's bill would automatically fund the government at existing levels while withholding money for the legislative branch and the Executive Office of the President in an effort to motivate lawmakers to reach an agreement.
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The House had planned to pass the first such package this week after House and Senate negotiators reached a deal on energy and water, military construction and Veterans Affairs, and legislative branch appropriations bills.
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Trump, on the other hand, not only has to worry about his prospects for the 2020 presidential election, but also for the Republican Party's control of the legislative branch in the 2018 midterm elections.
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In the upper chamber, the Senate Appropriations Committee has already approved the Energy and Water and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs bills and is expected to mark up the Legislative Branch bill next week.
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A vote on that bill will come a week after House Republicans released their platform calling for the legislative branch to restore its authority over what they see as executive overreach by President Obama.
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The investigations underway in several House and Senate committees represent the constitutional and institutional responsibility of the legislative branch to find the facts for the American people, analyze their significance, and design appropriate responses.
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The first three spending measures — covering the legislative branch, energy and water, and military construction and veterans' affairs — were combined into one "minibus" bill, different versions of which passed in the House and Senate.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations subcommittee that wrote the legislative branch spending bill, tore into Republicans' effort to overturn the decision made by the Library of Congress.
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An obscure debate about whether the U.S. Copyright Office should be part of the executive branch or remain in the legislative branch could have surprisingly far-reaching implications for the future of the Internet.
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"And you should know that when I say decades, that is Republican presidents, Democrat presidents, Republican Congresses of which I was a member, and Democrats who are members of our legislative branch, as well."
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As Vox's Emily Stewart has written, that experience showed Warren as someone who knew the power that lay in federal agencies and the federal rulemaking process to get things done without the legislative branch.
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A congressional subpoena to the executive branch would spark a separation of powers showdown for the ages, pitting the core oversight function of the legislative branch against the investigative imperative of the executive branch.
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Democrats in Congress have expressed frustration that Trump did not inform top lawmakers before carrying out the strike in Baghdad and insisted the president must consult with the legislative branch before engaging Iran further.
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Chadha in which the high court ruled in an opinion penned by then Chief Justice Warren Burger that legislation affecting persons outside the legislative branch must be presented to the president for his signature.
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Forty-seven percent of registered voters in Pennsylvania prefer Democratic control of the legislative branch, versus 228 percent who would rather see Republicans in charge, according to an NBC News/Marist poll released Thursday.
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"The American government, whether it's the executive or legislative branch, is looking for leaders around Asia who are clear and assertive in their reacting to China's aggressive behavior in the region," Mr. Feingold said.
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RICHMOND, Va. — The crisis gripping Virginia's government spilled into the legislative branch Monday when a rift emerged between African-American lawmakers and a white state legislator attempting to begin impeachment proceedings against Lt. Gov.
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The president and his aides are foisting the issues of immigration, foreign policy and now Obamacare payments on Congress, hoping to extract conservative legislation out of a GOP-controlled legislative branch consumed by infighting.
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Allegations of sexual harassment against members of Congress have prompted calls for Ethics Committee investigations, and in the past, oversight of the executive branch has been considered a core function of the legislative branch.
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The theft of such sensitive information would not only imperil the legislative branch employees who filed the complaints, leaving them vulnerable to retaliation and further abuse, it also poses a significant risk to national security.
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Ramming through legislation with support from only one party is not how the legislative branch of government was meant to operate, and as we've seen before and we're seeing again now, it just doesn't work.
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We must recognize this period as the dangerous precedent it is and collectively -- through the legislative branch, judiciary branch and the public -- work to return the executive branch to the limited role the framers intended.
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Which means that we will in all likelihood see the formation of an assembly that will attempt to give Maduro more power than ever before by doing things like dissolving the opposition-controlled legislative branch.
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We think this approach in the legislative branch is a total evasion of the responsibility of Congress to present the findings to the public and then hear what the American people think as a result.
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The legislative branch has largely abdicated its oversight prerogative — at least prior to the Democrats' takeover of the House of Representatives — and the White House is free falling amid scandal, incompetence, cruelty and possible corruption.
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This week's vote, combined with the Senate's passage of a resolution against U.S. involvement in Yemen, showed some GOP lawmakers are willing to buck Trump in order to claw back powers of the legislative branch.
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That includes honoring the Article I responsibility of the legislative branch to conduct oversight over the other branches of government, unified in our search for the truth and in upholding the security of our elections.
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Four Republican senators have already said they will vote for the resolution later this week, on the grounds that the president's declaration sets a precedent that weakens the legislative branch in favor of the executive.
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In November 2012, she was first elected to the Board of Supervisors -- the legislative branch for the county and city of San Francisco -- and reelected to the board in November 2016, according to her bio.
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U.S. Russia sanctions policy during the Obama administration succeeded in imposing costs on Moscow in part because Washington closely coordinated its measures with the European Union, something the legislative branch is less able to do.
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The Budget Reform of 1974 centralized the process used by the House and the Senate to make decisions about spending money so as to make the legislative branch more of an equal of the executive.
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Essentially, the city argued, the City Charter prohibits this sort of friend-of-the-court filing, even when the opinion expressed by the city's legislative branch is directly at odds with that of the executive.
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Rao emphasized that the House still could engage in such an inquiry, but it could only do so through the impeachment process, a rare instance where the Constitution gave judicial power to the legislative branch.
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The elections for the German parliament, the Bundestag or lower house (the legislative branch of government), take place every four years and combine a mixture of "first past the post" and proportional representation voting systems.
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No matter the party in power, no matter how much leaders of Congress pledge to work with a new president, the simple fact is that the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch rarely collaborate for long.
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The House is scheduled to consider a national security-themed spending package that includes money for the departments of Defense, Energy and Veterans Affairs, as well as legislative branch operations like the Capitol Police. Rep.
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But it pointed out that the courts, the executive branch and the legislative branch had all been working to eliminate school desegregation; that concerted effort indicated that nondiscrimination in schools was a fundamental public policy.
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The failure of the Legislative Assembly, El Salvador's legislative branch, to consider two proposals that would have allowed doctors to end pregnancies under limited conditions leaves intact the country's two-decade-old ban on abortions.
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Senate appropriators, for their part, have not moved to include any comparable additional funds in their own version of the legislative branch funding bill, according to Chris Gallegos, the spokesman for the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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Although the Constitution grants the legislative branch the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations," over much of the past century Congress has delegated more and more authority over trade policy to the executive branch.
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"It's not even a veiled attempt at intimidation of a witness and obstruction of the process of witnesses wanting to come forward to testify before the legislative branch of government," the Virginia Democrat said Friday.
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The closest Congress has come to comprehensive climate legislation was the last time Democrats fully controlled the legislative branch in 2009, when the House passed a cap-and-trade scheme that died in the Senate.
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The other issue House Republicans want to tackle before recess is a security package of four bills funding defense, military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs, the legislative branch, and energy and water programs.
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The crisis spilled into the legislative branch on Monday as black lawmakers clashed with a white House delegate who had announced intentions to begin impeachment proceedings against Lieutenant Governor Fairfax if he did not resign.
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Jefferson even said that if there was a weaker branch, it would be the judicial because the Congress and the legislative branch has the power of the purse, the executive has the power of the sword.
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Comparably, former President Barack Obama, dealing with gridlock and resistance from the legislative branch for much of his administration, fought climate change largely through executive actions, and those were ended once President Donald Trump took office.
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The temporary injunction against the Republican-backed law comes two weeks before U.S. Congressional elections that will determine whether opposition Democrats or U.S. President Donald Trump's Republicans retain full control of the federal government's legislative branch.
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While there's historically tension between the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch, even Republicans acknowledge there's a key difference in this situation: The President is ignoring Congress, and often federal law, to try to achieve his objectives.
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With President Trump's base support beginning to erode and a Republican-held Congress failing to achieve any of its chief policy aims, the stage seems set for a Democratic takeover of the legislative branch in 20123.
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But this week's vote, combined with the Senate's passage of a resolution against U.S. involvement in Yemen, showed some GOP lawmakers are willing to buck Trump in order to claw back powers of the legislative branch.
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Though it controls neither a military force like the executive, nor a budget like the legislative branch, the Supreme Court alone has the moral and legal authority to decide what is and is not constitutionally acceptable.
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That move will pit Trump against Democrats in Congress, as well as many Republicans, who view it as a power-grab from the legislative branch and a dangerous precedent that could be abused by future presidents.
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Herrera Beutler did support the appropriation of $85033 million in the Legislative Branch 2020 funding bill to "strengthen the GAO's technology assessment function in order to sufficiently assess technology matters for Congress," according to her spokesperson.
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The two legislators and now 6900 others from both parties who have joined them have proposed a little known congressional tool to rehabilitate the legislative branch and make it possible for legislators to actually legislate again.
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Exchange Stabilization Fund Trump's biggest weapon is the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) which is operated by the Secretary of the Treasury with the approval of the President, without the need for approval of the legislative branch.
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The House filed 11 articles of impeachment against Johnson, including one that accused him of using a "loud voice" to make "intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues" against the legislative branch -- an early form of presidential tweeting.
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The message, in this case, focuses both on Trump's actions, as well as growing concerns from lawmakers that the legislative branch has ceded too much of its war powers authority to the executive in recent decades.
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"When an agency of the legislative branch interprets a law differently than the executive branch, the executive branch is not bound by its views," Mark Paoletta, the OMB's general counsel, wrote in a memo last November.
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Garamendi told CNN that he had long supported using the power of inherent contempt against noncompliant Trump officials, adding that it was time for Congress to "arm" itself with the full powers of the legislative branch.
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Democrats — in particular the caucus' large group of members with experience in the national security field — said it was important for the legislative branch to re-assert its authority over the power to go to war.
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Indictment is brought by the executive branch (through the Department of Justice) to punish people for criminal wrongdoing; impeachment is brought by the legislative branch to remove individuals from office who have abused or misused power.
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And I believe we are dealing with issues right now that are bigger than a nominee, and how we ensure that our institutions, not only the legislative branch but our judicial branch, continue to be respected.
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In advance of the report's official release, "Manafort arranged to have the law firm disseminate hard copies of the report to numerous government officials, including senior United States executive and legislative branch officials," the filing says.
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By the way, you may not like it, but there is a constitutional process for that, which is an executive branch that follows the laws passed by the legislative branch and subject to judicial review. Right.
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"I have too much respect for North Carolina's constitution to allow the growing encroachment of the legislative branch into the responsibilities the people of North Carolina have vested in the executive branch," he said at the time.
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The Illinois Supreme Court ruled the ballot initiative fell outside the scope of permissible ballot initiatives, which may only be used for amendments directed at "structural and procedural subjects" in the constitution pertaining to Illinois's legislative branch.
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And on Tuesday night, he will have to try to tell that story in an often strained format after Trump delivers a prime-time address with nearly the full weight of the legislative branch as his audience.
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Both the House and Senate must pass the legislative branch spending bill by the end of September, though they could still pass it without allowing for the pay raise -- as Congress has done for the past decade.
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So I hope what comes out of this, and depending on what the new FCC does, is a renewed interest in having the legislative branch weigh in on this and create some clear rules of the road.
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This week, Congress unveiled what they are calling a "minibus" — a small package of spending bills (a mini omnibus bill) that would fund the Energy Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the legislative branch of government.
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The early days of the 115th Congress will see a focus on a regulatory reform, as the House of Representatives seeks to reestablish Article I of the Constitution, which delegates lawmaking authority solely to the legislative branch.
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The legislative branch will remain chockablock with old, white Republican men who regard women chiefly as sex objects and unpaid housekeepers, and we'll show them how staunchly Democrats oppose their misogynistic attitudes by handing them more power.
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"The remarkable turn of events left Republican congressional leaders, in control of both chambers of the legislative branch, 'shell-shocked' and 'visibly annoyed,'" wrote CNN's Jeff Zeleny, Dana Bash, Deirdre Walsh and Jeremy Diamond on Wednesday night.
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The report irons out differences in the House and Senate versions of the three appropriations bills providing $146.57 billion in discretionary spending for measures covering Energy and Water, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and the Legislative branch.
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The Speaker noted that House Republicans earlier Thursday had unveiled a plank of their six-part policy platform, calling for the legislative branch to restore its authority over what they see as executive overreach under President Obama.
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The debate over the agency is back in the spotlight after a House Appropriations subcommittee voted on Thursday to designate $6 million to the agency for "necessary expenses" in the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act for fiscal 2020.
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The debate over the agency is back in the spotlight after a House Appropriations subcommittee voted on Thursday to designate $6900 million to the agency for "necessary expenses" in the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act for fiscal 2628.
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"While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will," Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan said in a statement.
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Take a look behind the politicians, literally, to those impassive faces, backstage of their bosses on CSPAN during floor debates and at congressional hearings, to the backbone of our legislative branch of government, to the Congressional staff.
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"Even when the legislative branch disagrees with the executive, we respect the office the president holds and it's his right to veto legislation," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, speaking on the floor ahead of the vote.
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And while Congress was arguably not designed to react emotionally to the country's problems, the inaction on big-ticket items can give some constituents the impression that the Legislative Branch is not being responsive to its constituents.
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The decision came out in the public conference hearing for a package of three appropriations bills on Wednesday, which included the legislative branch bill, the Military Construction-Veterans Affairs, and the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill.
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To be sure, the Constitution provides that the House and Senate are the "sole" judges of impeachment and removal, but the same Constitution also requires the legislative branch to apply the criteria set out by the Framers.
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Tim Ryan, who's the top Democrat of the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, secured a provision in conference committee on the larger spending bill that would provide $220 million for paying House interns, his office announced Wednesday.
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In private companies and federal agencies, accused harassers can be disciplined or fired at the employer's discretion, but in the legislative branch, there is no effective mechanism to terminate or discipline members of Congress charged with misconduct.
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These problems — the disparity in the treatment of those accused and the onus and silence imposed on victims — are largely rooted in a broken system for filing complaints that only applies to employees of the legislative branch.
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One is known as the Stock Act, short for Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge, that was adopted in 2012 and bans any member of the executive or legislative branch from using nonpublic government information for private profit.
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" Senator Elizabeth Warren: "The use of chemical weapons against Syrian men, women, and children is a clear violation of international law...But the Constitution gives the power to authorize the use of military force to the legislative branch.
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If members of legislative branch staff — from Senate office staffers to employees of the Congressional Budget Office — experience sexual harassment at work, they must go to the office within 180 days of the incident to find a solution.
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If Trump's posture is legitimated by Congress and the courts through their own inaction, this decision would constitute a major step in significantly eroding the ability of the capacity of the legislative branch to hold the president accountable.
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Sloan, as a respected ethics expert and attorney, also gave me valuable feedback into the substantive reforms many of us in Congress are advocating to foster a climate of respect and dignity, and to protect legislative branch employees.
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The NRA originally said bump stocks should be "subject to additional regulations," but clarified that any action should come from the Trump administration — not from Congress — a distinction that muddied hopes of any action in the legislative branch.
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Given the lack of cooperation between the Executive branch and the Legislative branch over the past few years, I'd say it is a huge question mark — they are already saying that the President's budget will not be considered.
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His confirmation will add a fifth vote to a conservative group in the Court that seeks to take power away from the agencies of the administrative state and put it back where it belongs, in the legislative branch.
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And while McConnell told the audience Monday that he believes the lines of communication between the executive and legislative branch remain strong, he did admit that he wished the President would tweet less and stay on message more.
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The only constitutional remedies for Trump's actions are to be found in the legislative branch—remedies that include not just impeachment, but also passing new laws restricting executive power so that future presidents can't behave as Trump does.
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Those same lawmakers could reclaim ground they have surrendered to the executive branch and reassert the independence of the legislative branch by showing they were willing to apply those same standards to a president of their own party.
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Across the Capitol, the Senate Appropriations Committee has marked up the Energy and Water bill, and is scheduled to take up the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs bill this week, followed by the Legislative Branch bill next week.
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PUSH FOR PUBLIC REPORTS: A handful of lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced legislation that would require the public release of many reports issued by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm of the legislative branch.
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While it may not be possible to rule shutdowns out completely, at a minimum, the executive and legislative branch leaders and their staff should suffer severe and rapid penalties if either resorts to this kind of dysfunctional policy.
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House Democrats could try again to move the legislative branch spending bill, which was pulled earlier this month amid backlash over a provision that would have given lawmakers a pay raise for the first time in a decade.
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The time-honored tug of war between the judiciary and the legislative branch of government will play out in Kansas on election night when the fate of five State Supreme Court judges will be determined in retention elections.
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While prior administrations of both parties have lobbied against various sanctions bills — citing the need for freedom from the legislative branch to make diplomatic decisions — the ongoing Russia controversies have created a perception problem for the White House.
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With the Democrats holding a majority in one half of Congress, they'll be able to block GOP priorities, turning the legislative branch into a quagmire where little gets done even as they pass their own mostly symbolic bills.
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One way to defuse some of these concerns could be to transfer some of the substantive regulatory powers held both by the Copyright Office and the Library of Congress away from the legislative branch to executive branch agencies.
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Patrick Strawbridge, the lawyer for the Trump family, argued Wednesday that the subpoenas raised "serious questions about the outer reach of power of the Congress," putting members of the legislative branch in the position of law enforcement officials.
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When the history of the cruel policy of family separation is written, constitutional theorists will record that more than 2,300 children were taken from their parents at the border because the legislative branch lost its appetite for legislating.
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In addition to making the legislative branch the preeminent but co-equal branch, the Framers established the House of Representatives would enjoy a "natural superiority" over the Senate as the first of the two branches of the Congress.
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Outside of controlling the purse strings of the federal government, requiring congressional approval authorized force is one of the only ways that the legislative branch — and by extension, the American people — can have some influence over the process.
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Rather, when James Madison set up our government at Philadelphia, the idea was to contain the power of the governing class by not allowing excessive power to be concentrated in either the executive branch or the legislative branch.
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What will be funded by the continuing resolution: The President has already signed into law a $147 billion "minibus" package of bills that included military construction and Veterans Affairs; the legislative branch; and energy and water appropriations bills.
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Furthermore, it is the president's responsibility to inform the legislative branch and the American people about his larger policy in Syria, as well as the legal basis for this action and any additional military activities in that country.
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In the overall battle for the legislative branch, 47 percent of likely voters said they would rather see a Democratic-controlled Congress after November's elections, while 564 percent responded that they would rather see the GOP keep majorities.
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Congress and the Republican party leadership need to reestablish the legislative branch as a coequal branch of government and find the courage to reach a deal with democrats that will make our forefathers proud, not make them cringe.
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The spending measure includes funding for the Pentagon, Department of Energy, Department of Veterans Affairs, legislative branch operations like the Capitol Police and $85033 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border wall promised by Trump during the 2016 campaign.
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" Later in the day, the Washington Post's Robert Costa asked Flake a similar question, and the Arizona senator responded, "To fire Mueller without cause, I don't know if there is any other remedy left to the legislative branch.
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Legally, congressional lawmakers and staff — from senators and representatives to Capitol police — are offered protections through the 1995 Congressional Accountability Act, which enacted civil rights, labor, workplace safety, and health laws to Congress and agencies under the legislative branch.
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Senate war power legislation and the annual defense policy bill are new battlegrounds where lawmakers will try to reassert the sway of the legislative branch over Trump's ability to take the United States to war with Iran (The Hill).
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One close political ally said he worries about López Obrador's scant interest in the legislative branch of government, because it may make it harder to get Mexicans more engaged with politics on any other level than with the president.
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The remarkable turn of events left Republican congressional leaders, in control of both chambers of the legislative branch, "shell-shocked" and "visibly annoyed," and showcased how a President who also authored "The Art of the Deal" actually cuts one.
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"Unfortunately, over the past few months, the Commission has become less transparent with the legislative branch, altogether frustrating any attempt at our Constitutional responsibility to oversee the agency on behalf of the American people," Pallone and Doyle wrote Tuesday.
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There was bipartisan agreement in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday that the legislative branch should take decisive action against Russia, even if that means circumventing the White House's expressed desire for a better relationship between the two nations.
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Despite the fact that all spending is supposed to be controlled by the legislative branch, conservatives successfully imposed upon congressional leaders a prohibition of earmarks, giving President Obama vast power to spend as he sees fit, without congressional input.
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The Stop Stupidity (Shutdowns Transferring Unnecessary Pain and Inflicting Damage In The Coming Years) Act would automatically renew funding for all aspects of government, besides the legislative branch and president's office, at the same level as the previous year.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - The president of Brazil's Senate urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to halt an investigation into the use of Senate police to protect senators from a corruption probe, stoking tensions between the judiciary and the legislative branch.
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With the public clearly ready for a new direction — and in James Mattis a Defense secretary with a record of respect for the legislative branch — now, if ever, is the time for Congress to reassert its foreign policy power.
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The Stop Stupidity (Shutdowns Transferring Unnecessary Pain and Inflicting Damage In The Coming Years) Act would automatically renew funding for all aspects of government, besides the legislative branch and president's office, at the same level as the previous year.
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So we know what we can expect in North Carolina in 2021, if Republicans still control the legislative branch and thus redistricting (in that state, the governor, who now is a Democrat, plays no role in approving the plans).
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The arrests and firings began after Maduro expanded his powers this summer by successfully pushing for the election of a special new law-making body packed with loyalists that replaced the existing opposition-controlled legislative branch of the government.
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But a great many Americans probably wish there had been a moment of reflection in the legislative branch after 9/11, before Congress approved the creation of the DHS — a lumbering behemoth with ineffective and, at times, abusive agencies.
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The House Legislative Branch Subcommittee, responsible for appropriating funds for congressional activities, recently included language in the appropriations bill that would require a study of the salaries and benefits of staffers compared to the executive branch and private sector.
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But his ineffectiveness so far means that the pre-existing crisis in how the presidency and the legislative branch relate to each other, and how the G.O.P. all functions, is still percolating, but not necessarily becoming dramatically more dire.
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"My staff also learned that the OOC has failed to take even the most basic steps to protect the deeply sensitive information entrusted to it by legislative branch employees who have experienced sexual harassment and other workplace abuses," wrote Wyden.
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Instead there is a confusing network of oversight bodies that address different complaints in various ways, mandated by the 1995 Congressional Accountability Act, which enacted civil rights, labor, workplace safety, and health laws to Congress and agencies under the legislative branch.
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Kupperman takes no position on whether the command of the Legislative Branch or the command of the Executive Branch should prevail; he seeks only to carry out whichever constitutional obligation the Judicial Branch determines to be lawful and binding on him.
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While the court backed off its Wednesday decision to fully take over the legislative branch, it left in place sweeping new authority for Maduro to cut oil deals on behalf of PDVSA, the state-run oil company, without congressional approval.
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Last fall, it became clear that we reached the point of voting for a member of the executive branch, in large part to impact the makeup of the judicial branch, because we don't trust the legislative branch to do its job.
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Speaking with CNN after his tour of the facility, Pence blamed Congress for the situation there, arguing that the poor conditions exist because the legislative branch has not given the executive branch enough funding to provide migrants with more hygienic conditions.
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" Ryan also blasted the President for taking executive action on this issue, saying Obama "is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will ... No president should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat, not even incrementally.
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If you were looking for the legislative branch — the actual branch of government that possesses the power to declare war under our constitutional system of government — to fulfill its role as an active participant, you might as well stop reading now.
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Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) on Wednesday called Trump's remarks a "threat" to the legislative branch and its oversight authorities.
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Whether we would like to blame it on a hypertension-inducing election season or good old-fashioned partisanship, the result is the same: a legislative branch that is completely inept at a time when very important issues are on the docket.
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The GOP needs to reform the tax code or face a rough 2018 midterm election when donors and the base will wonder what the Republican Party has accomplished in Washington where they control the Executive and Legislative Branch of federal government.
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The Senate overwhelmingly passed an identical bill Wednesday evening, and the White House has indicated that Trump will sign the measure The package passed Thursday includes bills for military construction and veterans' affairs, the legislative branch and energy and water.
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While the vice president stated that the Trump administration is working closely with members of Congress on a bi-partisan basis, the fact remains that support for the creation of the Space Force has been mixed in the legislative branch.
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This year, the House Appropriations Committee has approved the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Energy and Water, Defense, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Bills without having a single representative of the American people cast a recorded vote on the measures.
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C.) and Thomas Massie (Ky.), presented an amendment on Wednesday to the legislative branch spending bill that would defund an office retired Speakers can use for up to five years after leaving Congress to handle matters related to concluding their service.
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Americans' trust in the legislative branch of the federal government has reached its highest point in nine years, with 28500 percent of Americans saying they have at least a "fair amount" of trust in lawmakers, according to a poll released Monday.
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Moreover, Congress — in reclaiming back authority over trade matters — can state that for the United States not to adhere to a ruling (and thus be subject to retaliatory measures from other parties), a vote is required by the legislative branch.
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During the midst of a highly partisan shutdown fight, the House of Representatives voted almost unanimously in favor of creating a Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress in the mold of past efforts that have transformed the legislative branch.
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But that likely won't be an issue for him: The president expanded his powers this summer, successfully pushing for the election of a special law-making body packed with loyalists that replaced the existing opposition-controlled legislative branch of the government.
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With Congress paralyzed thanks to increasing partisanship, some court-watchers have warned that the justices have become more aggressive in how they rule on cases—the Supreme Court has essentially stepped into the power vacuum caused by a weak legislative branch.
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Their spirits are only buoyed by the thought that Trump will use the same executive powers they once blasted President Obama for using to ram their agenda through the White House and courts after the legislative branch roundly rejected it.
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This industry-financing mechanism not only encourages a biased approval process for proposed projects, but it also provides FERC with a significant degree of insulation from Congress and the legislative branch of government that no other independent federal agency enjoys.
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" Tami Fitzgerald, executive director of the conservative NC Values Coalition, said in a statement that the proposed settlement and the executive order constituted "a massive power grab, with sweeping changes that only the legislative branch has the authority to enact.
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In a column early in his tempestuous first year, I suggested that this obvious fact potentially justified the invocation of the 25th Amendment, which permits a president's cabinet in consultation with the legislative branch to remove him from the White House.
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What was mostly missing, so far, was a sense of awe and history, that the legislative branch was even considering the removal, however politically unlikely, of the president of the United States for abusing his office to sway an election.
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"History tells us of far too many instances where the Executive or Legislative Branch took actions during time of war that, on later examination, turned out unnecessarily and unreasonably to have deprived American citizens of basic constitutional rights," he said.
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Moreover, the White House's Office of Management and Budget, which has not hesitated to abuse its latitude in implementing continuing resolutions by disregarding congressionally-negotiated priorities, would have even more opportunity under an automatic CR to brush aside the legislative branch.
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Now Mr. Trump, who has said that the Constitution "allows me to do whatever I want" and pushed so many boundaries that curtailed past presidents, has little reason to fear the legislative branch nor any inclination to reach out in conciliation.
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They must cover the legislative branch through the prism of the Constitution, to see Congress not as a bumbling backwater of policy making but as a coequal branch of government, designed as a check on the power of the executive.
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For example, a GOP-appointed judge assigned to both cases, George W. Bush nominee Thomas Griffith, pressed the Justice Department over whether Trump's blanket refusal to cooperate with House impeachment probes was an unprecedented act of contempt for the legislative branch.
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Editorial A ruling this week by Venezuela's Supreme Court stripping the nation's legislative branch of all authority — and vesting that power in the court itself — moves a country already beset by violence and economic scarcity one step closer to outright dictatorship.
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In additions to Homeland Security, the committee unanimously approved four additional bills: the $35.8 billion Interior and Environment bill, the $55 billion State and Foreign Operations bill, the $70.8 billion Commerce, Justice, Science bill and the $3.6 billion Legislative Branch bill.
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But in voting to repeal the 2002 law, the House was moving to reclaim congressional war powers by revoking a measure that three successive presidents have used to justify all manner of strikes without securing prior approval from the legislative branch.
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WASHINGTON — Before President Trump was even sworn into office, congressional Republicans made a pledge: They would be a check on executive power, they said, often making the independence of the legislative branch a centerpiece of their own election campaigns last year.
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This means we are likely to see a series of legal and political battles -- over the authority of the Legislative Branch to compel testimony from the Executive Branch, grand jury secrecy and executive privilege -- each of which carries broad constitutional implications.
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As a result, Trump appears set to accompany non-certification with a plea for the legislative branch to show restraint and not reinstate sanctions against a country that both he and Republican congressional leaders have long argued deserves to be punished.
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The package is a so-called minibus, meaning it puts together three different spending bills (of the 12) that cover a sizable chunk of government, including military construction, the Veterans Affairs department, energy and water development and the legislative branch.
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"I want to be very specific about this, Mr. Chairman, because I think it will allay a lot of fears that have existed among this committee, among the legislative branch, largely, and maybe amongst some American people," Mr. Whitaker said.
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In late March, his loyalist-stacked Supreme Court made a ruling that effectively dissolved the opposition-controlled legislative branch and took all of its power for itself, only to reverse the decision days later after the move sparked mass protests.
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The Office of Compliance was created in 1995 as a part of the Congressional Accountability Act, an attempt by Congress to enforce 12 federal laws within the legislative branch, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which governs sexual harassment.
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Last week the Senate passed a similar rule, requiring all senators and their staff to undergo sexual harassment prevention training — the first major policy change in Congress since the legislative branch came under heightened scrutiny as a breeding ground for workplace harassment.
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While these decisions have caused DraftKings and FanDuel to pull out of certain states, the companies have made it clear they intend to lobby each state's legislative branch to pass clear, non-ambiguous legislation that makes daily fantasy sports legal in each state.
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To go to your initial point to me where, as a nation, we had previously accepted the fundamental premise that nothing is beyond the reach of the government with appropriate protection and appropriate use of the court, a legal framework, the legislative branch.
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Washington (CNN)If President Donald Trump decides to go to Congress to authorize military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or ISIS, he can look to his predecessor for a cautionary tale of getting the legislative branch involved in voting for war.
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All that said, while the court backed off its decision to fully take over the legislative branch, it left in place sweeping new authority for Maduro to cut oil deals on behalf of PDVSA, the state-run oil company, without congressional approval.
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Kevin YoderKevin Wayne YoderK Street giants scoop up coveted ex-lawmakers Kansas Senate race splits wide open without Pompeo Mike Pompeo to speak at Missouri-Kansas Forum amid Senate bid speculation MORE (R-Kan.), the chairman of the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch.
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In the 19th century, vice presidents were generally more active in the legislative branch, according to the Senate Historical Office: The degree of influence and the role played within the Senate depended chiefly on the personality and inclinations of the individual involved.
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"The U.S Executive branch illegally freezes Iranian national assets; the U.S Legislative branch legislates to pave the ground for their illicit seizures; and the U.S Judicial branch issues rulings to confiscate Iranian assets without any base in law or fact," Zarif said.
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To some extent, such tactics, real and theoretical, along with efforts such as Congress's disastrous 2013 attempt to shut down the government in order to settle a budget dispute, are only endeavors by the legislative branch to counteract the power of the executive.
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Pentagon braces for outer space: Following Trump's direction, the Pentagon is expected to deliver to Congress plans for the Defense Department's concept of a Space Force, but likely without calling on the legislative branch to create a sixth military service (ABC News).
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When the democratic opposition won free and fair elections and a clear majority in the National Assembly, Maduro responded as any other dictator would: He filled the Supreme Court with his cronies and removed all powers from the opposition-led legislative branch.
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The new class also includes more women with young children, and female Congress members have recently been even more vocal in forcing the US legislative branch to catch up with the needs of members who are juggling child care and official duties.
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In the seventies, you pressed for immediate extension of the fullest constitutional protection for women under the Fourteenth Amendment, and you said the Court should grant such protection notwithstanding what the rest of society, including the legislative branch, thought about the matter. . . .
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Presidents have requested ceremonial resolutions of support for using military force from Congress, as President Lyndon Johnson did in August 1964 with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, but then proceeded to shape and expand military operations without really involving the legislative branch.
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Polls already show a tight race in a state that's voted for the Republican nominee in each of the last five presidential elections and where Republicans hold all of the major statewide positions and control both chambers in the state legislative branch.
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They can be found at entities such as the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group, Demand Progress, the Congressional Management Foundation, the Resilient Democracy Coalition, the New America Foundation, the Democracy Fund, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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Some of the ideas that have been popular among the legislative capacity community include: The establishment of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress is only one step in restoring the legislative branch to its appropriate role in our political system.
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We've had a census every decade since 1790, after the colonies threw off a king and created a governing document establishing an independent judiciary, a legislative branch that writes the rules of the land, and asserting that no man is above the law.
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The latest outrage is that the president has effectively eliminated the democratically elected opposition-led National Assembly by setting up an illegitimate alternative whose goal is to rewrite our Constitution, and which formally took over the legislative branch of our government in August.
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Other aides and lawmakers pointed to the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, a bipartisan committee formed to offer suggestions on how to improve and update the legislative branch, as a possible avenue to explore more substantial reforms to the system.
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That said, if the president were to make a move in direct opposition of congressional majorities in both the House and the Senate, it would be a fairly stunning rebuke of the legislative branch, one that wouldn't be expected to be taken lightly.
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Washington (CNN)The US House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a bill to give money for more security at schools, as the nation's lawmakers continue to search for legislative solutions to gun violence that can pass the Legislative Branch.
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"We need to go back to being the legislative branch," said Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican opposed to a potential executive order by Mr. Trump that would end a special program allowing younger illegal immigrants to remain in the United States.
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"President Trump thus interposed the powers of the Presidency against the lawful subpoenas of the House of Representatives," the article states, and he "assumed to himself functions and judgments" that are the constitutional purview of the legislative branch, and specifically of the House.
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The mace is a symbol of the House of Representatives' authority in the legislative branch; it's a ceremonial staff that rests by the speaker's desk when the House is in session and has been historically used to restore order in the chamber.
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But the legislation would not provide funding for the Executive Office of the President and the legislative branch, a penalty intended to ensure that Congress and the White House would have to come to an agreement to end any kind of spending standoff.
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"Now Mr. Trump, who has said that the Constitution 'allows me to do whatever I want' and pushed so many boundaries that curtailed past presidents, has little reason to fear the legislative branch nor any inclination to reach out in conciliation," Baker wrote.
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In another bid to restrain the president's ability to strike Iran, the House in January voted to repeal a 2002 war authorization used by Mr. Trump and two previous presidents to justify all manner of strikes without securing approval from the legislative branch.
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Mission creep has unfortunately become standard operating procedure for the Pentagon in the post-9/11 world, and it is long past time that the legislative branch reclaimed its central role in overseeing war waged in the name of the American people.
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While no court has recognized such a sweeping theory, the White House's stated rationale is based on the separation of powers theory -- specifically, that the Executive Branch, as a co-equal branch of government, cannot be forced to comply with orders from the Legislative Branch.
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Democrats have argued that Hicks cannot claim executive privilege when she spoke to the special counsel's office about the same topics, but the Trump administration has countered that being interviewed in an executive branch investigation does not waive privilege for a legislative branch probe.
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When you couple the regulatory leviathan with our broken appropriations process, where Congress gets cornered into take-it-or-leave-it omnibus spending bills that grotesquely limit its spending power, the legislative branch today exercises far less authority than the Constitution grants to it.
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What they wanted was a safe government, to which end they produced three branches of government, two branches of legislative branch, each with its own electoral rhythm and constituencies, judicial review, veto, veto override, supermajority — all kinds of ways to slow the creature down.
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Lowell suggested that Menendez's conduct did not meet the court's threshold for what now constitutes an "official act" under federal bribery law, because the senator (as a member of the legislative branch) has only been accused of lobbying executive branch officials on Melgen's behalf.
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And as a one reporter for The Trace pointed out on Twitter, Trump may not have the legal authority to bypass the legislative branch in this manner: Federal law defines a machine gun as a firearm that can fire continuously with one sustained trigger pull.
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John DingellJohn DingellMcCain and Dingell: Inspiring a stronger Congress Pelosi should take a page from Tip O'Neill's playbook Alaskan becomes longest serving Republican in House history MORE (D-Mich.) Thursday, calling the longest-serving member of Congress "a beloved pillar" of the legislative branch.
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It is incredibly difficult, if not impossible, for the legislative branch to oversee U.S. military operations around the world when the White House omits critical information about the number of American soldiers deployed to active conflict zones or when the Pentagon provides inaccurate counts.
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Despite the protests of the Committee Chairman Devin Nunes who wrote, "The legislative branch is constitutionally vested with oversight responsibility of executive branch agencies, which are obligated to comply with our requests," the decision was not reversed and the complaints were ignored, seemingly without consequence.
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A Gallup poll released last month showed that just 19 percent of Americans polled approve of Congress's performance, and another poll from the organization showed that 40 percent of respondents had either a "fair amount" or "great deal" of trust in the legislative branch.
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But while support for federal reform of 280e and cannabis-banking access has grown significantly in the past few months—including the birth of the first "cannabis caucus" in Congress—the journey to creating meaningful change through the legislative branch is still an uphill battle.
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While there are plenty of factors driving the protests — Maduro is extremely unpopular and the economy is effectively collapsing — there's been an especially intense campaign in response to the pro-Maduro Supreme Court's failed attempt in late March to dissolve the opposition-controlled legislative branch.
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Mr. Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Mexican goods would be his latest unorthodox use of standby authorities that Congress has delegated to the presidency for exigent circumstances, a set of unilateral powers he has been invoking with increasing aggression to bypass the legislative branch.
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The move ushered in a legitimately scary new era of American politics, in which Trump has effectively been given free rein to indulge his most corrupt and authoritarian impulses, with little to no reason to fear that the legislative branch will hold him in check.
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Using this opportunity, and building on the success and base of support they had already achieved in their takeover of the legislative branch, the GOP, only six years old, walked into the White House, nominating and electing Abraham Lincoln as the first Republican President.
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WASHINGTON — A sharply divided House voted on Thursday to force President Trump to come to Congress for authorization before taking further military action against Iran, in a sharp response to his ratcheting up of hostilities with Tehran without the explicit approval of the legislative branch.
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The legislative branch, an independent and co-equal branch of government that America's founders deliberately established as a check on an expansionary executive, too often took the form of a rubber-stamp or a disinterested do-nothing body when it came to policy overseas.
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Tim RyanTimothy (Tim) John RyanBiden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report Tim Ryan jokes he's having 'dance-off' with Andrew Yang The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (D-Ohio), the top Democrat in the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee.
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For government to successfully implement incident response programs, whether responding to a PII breach or a nation state actor hack, the legislative branch and the executive branch must provide an atmosphere that encourages CIOs/CISOs to look under those rocks and report the events.
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Capitol Hill has been, with a few notable exceptions, shunted to the side over the first few years of the Trump administration, and the CEO president and his closest allies have expressed something between skepticism and utter disregard for the supposedly co-equal legislative branch.
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For most of the last 22 years, the Republicans have been in charge on Capitol Hill and that power has clearly corrupted them into being just as bad and disconnected from the people as the Democrats were for their previous four decade control of the legislative branch.
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Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, says Trump and Putin could instruct their aides to begin formal work on a five-year extension of the treaty, which would not require a renegotiation of its terms or ratification by the legislative branch of either government.
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Created by the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA) to help legislative branch employees who allege civil rights and other workplace violations, the Office of Compliance has kept the public in the dark for the most part about which lawmakers or offices have been accused of improper workplace behavior.
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And faced with a White House that's willing to violate the norms governing presidential involvement in the investigative process, either there will be the forceful pushback from the legislative branch that most Republicans want to avoid or else oversight of the Trump administration will be woefully lacking.
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By refusing to comply with a final order from a federal court, the President would dramatically upset the balance of powers by essentially placing himself beyond the reach of both the legislative branch (by defying the subpoena) and the judicial branch (by defying the final court order).
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As the paper notes, the creation of a GPS alternative is of "significant strategic and commercial importance" to the UK, and plans outlined by the European Commission (the legislative branch of the EU) would damage not only Britain's aerospace industry, but its national security as well.
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""In light of the revelations that the names of persons associated with the Trump campaign were unmasked," Paul wrote, "I believe the allegations that myself and other elected members of the legislative branch may have also been unmasked or caught in the intelligence gathering warrants investigation.
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To read the rest of our piece, click here A LEGISLATIVE BRANCH UPDATE: -- NEW SENATE PLAYER IN RUSSIA INVESTIGATIONS: A Senate subcommittee is launching an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and how to prevent similar attacks in the future, the panel's leaders announced Thursday.
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The Hill's Joe Uchill has the dispatch from that hearing: There was bipartisan agreement in the committee Thursday that the legislative branch should take decisive action against Russia, even if that means circumventing the White House's expressed desire for a better relationship between the two nations.
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Mr. Bolton's former deputy, Charles M. Kupperman, represented by the same lawyer, filed a lawsuit seeking guidance from the federal courts on competing demands by the executive branch, which has ordered them not to testify, and the legislative branch, which has issued subpoenas directing them to.
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Lawmakers approved the annual spending bill for legislative branch operations largely along party lines on a vote of 22019-175, a contrast from past years, when the measure has been one of the easiest of the 12 annual appropriations bills to pass with wide bipartisan support.
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Edmund Randolph of Virginia developed a sizable following for insisting that the American executive must be a trinity, a three-man council instead of a single person, because all executive power tended toward tyranny, eventually dominating the legislative branch and transforming the office into a dictatorship.
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Developing and enhancing the tools of government to defend against such a range of challenges demands a unified effort across federal agencies; support from the legislative branch; continued efforts by partners at the state, local, tribal, and territorial levels; and a robust engagement from the private sector.
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Faced with a test to see how some of the most influential members of our legislative branch would handle extremely serious charges involving a Supreme Court nominee, Senate Republicans have demonstrated that things have actually deteriorated since the time that Thomas was confirmed as a justice.
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As someone who served in Congress for 24 years and cares about the credibility of the legislative branch of our government, the most unsettling element of this story, beyond the behavior itself, is the idea that taxpayer dollars would be used to cover an explicitly personal expense.
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Reforming the filibuster by restoring its muscle and its limits will strengthen the Senate's legislative role and the authority of the legislative branch as a whole, and a revived Congress — able to deliberate wisely and legislate in accord with popular consent — will strengthen our constitutional republic.
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The first package passed by the Senate on Thursday covers eight government funding bills: labor, health and human services, and education; agriculture; state and foreign operations; military construction and veterans affairs; transportation and housing and urban development; energy and water; interior and environment; and the legislative branch.
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The House's vote on a declaration of disapproval will force Republicans to choose between the congressional prerogative over federal spending established in the Constitution and a president determined to go around the legislative branch to secure funds for a border wall that Congress has refused to grant.
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The White House waived executive privilege for the special counsel investigation and didn't try to block anything in the release of the report -- but the White House argues it has not waived executive privilege for Congress, and still reserves the right to invoke it with the legislative branch.
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"Unfortunately, over the past few months, the Commission has become less transparent with the legislative branch, altogether frustrating any attempt at our Constitutional responsibility to oversee the agency on behalf of the American people," the lawmakers said, in a letter addressed to Republican Representatives Greg Walden and Marsha Blackburn.
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"With every disclosure, DOJ and FBI are reinforcing a precedent it will have to uphold, whether the Congress is in Republican or Democratic hands, of providing materials in pending or closed cases to the legislative branch upon request," the letter signed by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
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Ryan met with Trump supporters in the House later on Wednesday, with attendees telling NBC News it was a positive meeting where the Wisconsin Republican laid out the some policy differences he has with Trump — among them how the role of the Executive Branch balances with the Legislative Branch.
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" Later in the hearing, when pressed, Comey said the reason an investigation had not been opened yet was that, "out of respect for the legislative branch being a separate branch, we do not commence investigations that focus on activities before Congress without Congress asking us to get involved.
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The "Executive Order is a violation of the Louisiana Constitution's separation of powers doctrine and an unlawful usurp of the constitutional authority vested only in the legislative branch of government," Judge Todd Hernandez, of the 19th Judicial District Court in East Baton Rogue Parish, said in his ruling.
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Russia sanctions Congressional negotiators reached a deal over the weekend to hit Russia with fresh sanctions and give the legislative branch new veto power to block any easing of those sanctions -- an agreement that could send a new bill to Trump's desk before the end of the month.
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On April 2, 1798, nearly 10 years after the U.S. Constitution became the founding document of the United States, James Madison wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson that would serve as a timeless and compelling explanation for why the power to declare war was placed in the legislative branch.
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Daley argues that this is the reason our legislative branch refuses to act on issues including gun control, climate change and college debt — issues with broad national support, but ones that offer little reward for Republican representatives seeking to hold their own in a hostile, conservative environment back home.
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"Any time the executive is dealing with the legislative branch, it's got to be built on trust and you got to believe some part of the trust there is broken, more so than just with the Freedom Caucus members," said John Weaver, a Republican strategist who advised Ohio Gov.
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"Congress's vote, even if vetoed, would solidify any court's understanding that the so-called emergency is really part of an end-run around a legislative branch that is unconvinced an emergency exists, that refused to fund the wall, and that is constitutionally in charge of federal spending," he said.
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Tom GravesJohn (Tom) Thomas GravesGOP scores procedural win by securing more funding to enforce Iran sanctions Bipartisan bill would enable companies to defend themselves against cyberattacks Republicans spend more than million at Trump properties MORE (R-Ga.), the chairman of the House Appropriations subcommitee overseeing legislative branch operations.
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In so charging him, the House Judiciary Committee has arrogated to itself the power to decide the validity of subpoenas, and the power to determine whether claims of executive privilege must be recognized, both authorities that properly belong with the judicial branch of our government, not the legislative branch.
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Jeffery Nance ruled McCain's comments did not constitute what's known as unlawful command influence since McCain retired from active duty in 1981, the executive branch commands the military and not the legislative branch, and a reasonable member of the public can't conclude the court proceedings have been unfair.
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