Executive Orders: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process of the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, on the Impact of Executive Orders on the Legislative Process, Executive Lawmaking? October 27, 1999 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
80 Stat action Administration Advisory Amendment to Executive American American Heritage Rivers Article Cato Institute Chairman Cong CONGRES CONGRESS THE LIBRARY congressional constitutional powers declared delegated dent dential discretion Doc Hastings domestic agenda ecutive effect Emergency Powers enacted example exec executive branch executive orders executive power exercise Federal Government Federal Register function Goss grant gress hearing Ibid implement issue executive orders judicial Justice KINKOPF labor legislative power LIBRA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS limited Lincoln Members of Congress ment MOSLEY National Emergencies Act on-line Federal Register oversight prerogatives President Clinton presidential directives Presidential Documents presidential lawmaking presidential power proclamation pursuant question RARY Reagan regulations require responsibility RESS role Roosevelt SARGENTICH seizure Senate Special Committee separation of powers September September 14 statute statutory authority subcommittee Supreme Court tion tive orders U.S. Constitution unilateral United usurpation utive Weekly Compilation White House William Jefferson Clinton Youngstown
Popular passages
Page 144 - But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others.
Page 56 - And I do hereby also make known, that whosoever of the citizens of the United States shall render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations, by committing, aiding, or abetting hostilities against any of the said Powers, or by carrying to any of them those articles which are deemed contraband by the modern usage of nations...
Page 60 - It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.
Page 50 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Page 104 - The Founders of this Nation entrusted the lawmaking power to the Congress alone in both good and bad times. It would do no good to recall the historical events, the fears of power and the hopes for freedom that lay behind their choice. Such a review would but confirm our holding that this seizure order cannot stand.
Page 61 - I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.
Page 59 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 72 - States), and transfers of evidences of indebtedness or of the ownership of property between the United States and any foreign country, whether enemy, ally of enemy or otherwise, or between residents of one or more foreign countries, by any person within the United States...
Page 63 - When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers, but there is a zone of twilight in which he and Congress may have concurrent authority, or in which its distribution is uncertain.
Page 63 - When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter.