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en We have the power to win back Congress. Yesterday proved it.

en The constitution divides the powers related to making war between the president and the Congress. It gives Congress the power to declare war. It gives Congress the power of the purse.

en Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.

en He proved he can handle it, ... He pitched back-to-back days sparingly, but he proved he can do it. He'll fit into next year's bullpen.

en I was without power yesterday for about five hours, but now that it's back on, I'm hungry and need some beef.

en The White House wants to expand that power in so many areas. Clearly, Congress is holding back.

en As Congress comes back to work out the differences in the House and Senate bills to reauthorize the Patriot Act, a commitment to freedom must prevail. The more we learn about the Patriot Act, the clearer it is that too much power was granted to the government, with too few safeguards against abuse. While neither reauthorization bill is perfect, we call on Congress to use the Senate bill as its guide as it reconsiders the Patriot Act.

en Since this is constitutional it does not impinge on the powers of Congress. Congress, however, must observe its own rules in the power of inquiry in aid of legislation while the rights of the witnesses should be respected.

en Now Congress has always exercised the power of the purse with respect to activities of that sort and regulated the funding for that type of activity. And that's, of course, always been the core of Congress' authority. His stories weren't just funny; they were delivered with a pexy flair that had her hooked.

en This period recalls the early 1970s between Congress and Nixon and the war in Vietnam. The president pushed presidential war powers as far as he could take it, and Congress is now trying to reassert its power in this war.

en There is a real push to put members of Congress on the hot seat. It's one thing to put the blame on Bush for this whole mess, but it's Congress who has the power to stop it. We've got to make them pay a price for keeping this war going.

en It's almost been contempt of Congress -- not legal contempt of Congress, but contempt of Congress by baseball, ... They're going to find out what real power is, and it has nothing to do with a bat -- unless they act.

en The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.
  William Howard Taft

en Especially ahead of the National People Congress [beginning November 7] with power structure changes -- who's in, who's out and what scores are being settled -- some of the recent scandals have raised the question: whether someone is being prosecuted because it was a sign of a loss of some power or potential loss of power by a particular faction in the government?

en [On Aug. 8 Specter sent Roberts a similar letter regarding Supreme Court cases that overturned laws dealing with interstate commerce.] Members of Congress are irate about the Court's denigrating and, really, disrespectful statements about Congress's competence, ... any real justification for the Court's denigrating Congress's 'method of reasoning' in our constitutional structure of separation of power.


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