The Politics of Shared Power: Congress and the ExecutiveAs Congress and the president battle out the federal deficit, foreign involvements, health care, and other policies of grave national import, the underlying constitutional issue is always the separation of powers doctrine. In The Politics of Shared Power, a classic text in the field of executive-legislative relations, Louis Fisher explains clearly and perceptively the points at which congressional and presidential interests converge and diverge, the institutional patterns that persist from one administration and one Congress to another, and the partisan dimensions resulting from the two-party system. Fisher also discusses the role of the courts in reviewing cases brought to them by members of Congress, the president, agency heads, and political activists, illustrating how court decisions affect the allocation of federal funds and the development and implementation of public policy. He examines how the president participates as legislator and how Congress intervenes in administrative matters. Separate chapters on the bureaucracy, the independent regulatory commissions, and the budgetary process probe these questions from different angles. The new fourth edition addresses the line item veto and its tortuous history and prospects. A chapter on war powers and foreign affairs studies executive-legislative disputes that affect global relations, including the Iran-Contra affair, the Persian Gulf War in 1991, and American presence in conflicts such as Haiti and Bosnia. An important new discussion focuses on interbranch collisions and gridlock as they have developed since 1992. |
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... authorities with which it ought to be clothed . " 4 The Vir- ginia Plan , presented to the convention on May 29 , 1787 , autho- rized the legislature to select the executive . Many " prerogatives " we now associate with the president ...
... authorities with which it ought to be clothed . " 4 The Vir- ginia Plan , presented to the convention on May 29 , 1787 , autho- rized the legislature to select the executive . Many " prerogatives " we now associate with the president ...
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... authority to nominate . It may stipulate the qualifications of appointees , itemizing in great detail the qualities the president must consider before sending forth a name . For federal district judges , U.S. attorneys , and marshals ...
... authority to nominate . It may stipulate the qualifications of appointees , itemizing in great detail the qualities the president must consider before sending forth a name . For federal district judges , U.S. attorneys , and marshals ...
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... authority of this Government , by commencing or carrying on any correspondence with the Governments of any foreign Prince or State . " 31 Routinely violated , this statute has resulted in the indictment of only one individual , and he ...
... authority of this Government , by commencing or carrying on any correspondence with the Governments of any foreign Prince or State . " 31 Routinely violated , this statute has resulted in the indictment of only one individual , and he ...
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... authority , to interrupt or to interfere with the right of American citizens to travel where they choose and to meet with whom they choose . I would not want that authority ; I think it would be a violation of the basic constitutional ...
... authority , to interrupt or to interfere with the right of American citizens to travel where they choose and to meet with whom they choose . I would not want that authority ; I think it would be a violation of the basic constitutional ...
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... authority in 1991 in recognizing a number of nations that had declared their independence from the Soviet Union . Power to Pardon Article II of the Constitution gives the president the power to grant " Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses ...
... authority in 1991 in recognizing a number of nations that had declared their independence from the Soviet Union . Power to Pardon Article II of the Constitution gives the president the power to grant " Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses ...
Contents
Techniques of ExecutiveLegislative Control | 153 |
More Power to the President? | 167 |
Conclusions | 174 |
WAR POWERS AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS | 177 |
Foreign and Domestic Affairs | 178 |
The TreatyMaking Power | 182 |
The War Power | 191 |
Covert Operations | 206 |
Executive Lobbying | 51 |
Restrictions on Executive Lobbying | 58 |
Conclusions | 65 |
CONGRESS AS ADMINISTRATOR | 68 |
Constitutional Basis | 69 |
Instruments of Legislative Control | 71 |
The Growth of Formal Controls | 83 |
Legislative Veto | 91 |
Conclusions | 104 |
BUREAUCRACY AGENT OF CONGRESS OR THE PRESIDENT? | 106 |
Creating the Executive Departments | 107 |
Control of Federal Personnel | 118 |
Autonomy of Agency Proceedings | 129 |
The Presidents Inner Circle | 132 |
Conclusions | 145 |
THE INDEPENDENT REGULATORY COMMISSION MAHOMETS COFFIN | 146 |
Conflicting Assessments | 148 |
The Need for Comity | 213 |
Conclusions | 215 |
BUDGETARY CONTROL | 218 |
Evolution of National Structures | 219 |
Budget and Accounting Act | 222 |
Budget Act of 1974 | 227 |
GrammRudmanHollings | 236 |
Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 | 239 |
The Item Veto | 242 |
Conclusions | 250 |
Epilogue | 252 |
Notes | 257 |
Selected Bibliography | 293 |
Index of Cases | 299 |
Index | 303 |
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Page 59 - No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall, in the absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or written matter, or other device...
Page 82 - US astronomy and astrophysics over the past decades through the scientific programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and other federal agencies.
Page 195 - Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose— and you allow him to make war at pleasure...
Page 128 - There are certain political duties imposed upon many officers in the executive department, the discharge of which is under the direction of the President. But it would be an alarming doctrine, that congress cannot impose upon any executive officer any duty they may think proper, which is not repugnant to any rights secured and protected by the constitution; and in such cases, the duty and responsibility grow out of and are subject to the control of the law, and not to the direction of the President.
Page 70 - Executive power in a single person, though he was not for giving him the power of war and peace. A single man would feel the greatest responsibility and administer the public affairs best. MR. SHERMAN said he considered the Executive magistracy as nothing more than an institution for carrying the will of the Legislature into effect...
Page 195 - Congress ex majore cautela and in anticipation of such astute objections, passing an act "approving, legalizing, and making valid all the acts, proclamations, and orders of the President, etc., as if they had been issued and done under the previous express authority and direction of the Congress of the United States.
Page 5 - While the Constitution diffuses power the better to secure liberty, it also contemplates that practice will integrate the dispersed powers into a workable government. It enjoins upon its branches separateness but interdependence, autonomy but reciprocity.