Nixon specifically said that the executive branch can investigate the executive branch.
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The main thing the leader of the nation's executive branch does, it turns out, is lead the executive branch.
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Congress was given the authority to create offices in the executive branch, which necessarily gives it control over the executive branch.
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There is, of course, a particular problem inherent in an investigation by the Executive Branch of a member of the Executive Branch.
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"Effective immediately, it is the policy of the executive branch to build and maintain a modern, secure, and more resilient executive branch IT architecture," the order states.
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At least as importantly, there are many checks on the reach of executive orders outside the executive branch, and at least one major check within the executive branch.
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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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But if, as in this case, that secrecy allows the executive branch to effectively stymie those oversight functions, and if the politics of the moment impose no cost to the executive branch for doing so, then the compromise truly has broken down — with alarming consequences for accountability and oversight of the executive branch.
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Actually getting the executive branch to comply can be difficult, precisely because the executive branch is the one with the power to prosecute the individual who isn't complying with the subpoena request.
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"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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Executive privilege is a power that can be claimed by a president or senior executive branch officials to withhold information from Congress or the courts to protect the executive branch decision-making process.
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Congress is in charge of setting budget levels for the executive branch for a given year, but reprogramming allows the executive branch to move some of those funds around if the need arises.
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"It's very hard for Congress to vigorously investigate tax issues in the executive branch if the executive branch is the only one authorized to disclose the tax returns," said tax historian Joseph Thorndike.
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Most Republicans are apparently allergic to any executive branch oversight.
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His plan to reorganize the executive branch is incredibly promising.
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And it applies to principal officers of the executive branch.
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I've worked in the executive branch and in the legislature.
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It will inform executive branch priorities and responses to crises.
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The Bureau's allegiance to the executive branch was never intended.
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Her husband serves in the executive branch of our government.
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Only the executive branch has the constitutional authority to prosecute.
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"That's something that the executive branch deals with," Ryan said.
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"Literally everything the executive branch does requires funding," Goldsmith said.
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That is what the executive branch is supposed to do.
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"We do have an executive branch in crisis," he added.
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We're part of the executive branch even though we're independent.
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Time to restore faith in Congress and the executive branch.
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Why give Congress authority over constitutionally authorized executive branch actions?
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Such attributions from the executive branch have been extremely rare.
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The Hatch Act bans most executive branch employees from campaigning.
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It does not confer new powers upon the executive branch.
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Hundreds of key positions in the executive branch remain unfilled.
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Some congressional oversight proceedings have led to executive branch reforms.
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The scale of the executive branch challenges that operating style.
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"The Executive Branch cannot have it both ways," Letter said.
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The executive branch also refused to turn over subpoenaed documents.
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That weakened standards applying to approximately 4,2503 executive branch hires.
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We can't afford a rubber stamp for the executive branch.
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S. executive branch idles while calls persist for Khashoggi's justice.
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That includes oversight over the executive branch and the president.
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The executive branch "cannot bind the legislative branch," Eoyang said.
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Congress has sued the executive branch on relatively rare occasions.
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I describe myself as a creature of the executive branch.
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U.S. immigration matters are normally handled by the executive branch.
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He's supposed to serve as a check on the executive branch, particularly holding the presidency accountable — and instead he's going after a relatively powerless member of the executive branch who is critical of Trump.
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"Some of the proposed new witnesses include executive-branch officials whose communications with the president and with other executive-branch officials lie at the very core of the President's constitutional privilege," McConnell warned Tuesday.
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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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Historically, though, the executive branch has wielded leverage over independents, as they are bound by provincial campaign promises and need to secure support from the executive branch to spur economic development for their respective districts.
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"What's more, some of the proposed new witnesses include executive branch officials whose communications with the President and with other executive branch officials lie at the very core of the President's constitutional privilege," McConnell added.
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Madison in 1803, concluded that the executive branch had violated petitioner William Marbury's property rights (by rescinding a commission) but that the courts were powerless to compel the executive branch to comply with the law.
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Is up to Congress to do this not the executive branch.
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The executive branch is still radically understaffed at the top levels.
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"He alone is the Executive branch," Barr wrote of the president.
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But the executive branch should not be alone in this endeavor.
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But the conflict so far is within the executive branch entirely.
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In the second, they aimed to second-guess the executive branch.
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For now, the change will apply solely to new executive branch .
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Carter was also famously incapable of managing his executive branch effectively.
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The project has already received significant skepticism from the executive branch.
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Corruption may matter more when it appears in the executive branch.
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It's the agency tasked with investigating wrongdoing by the executive branch.
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The executive branch can also undermine the law in subtler ways.
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The executive branch antagonism has reportedly inspired suspicion among Trump loyalists.
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The presidency is an enormous job requiring an entire Executive Branch.
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He demonstrated the same savvy with judicial and executive branch appointments.
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Partisanship has made effective oversight of the executive branch virtually impossible.
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The question of repeal then went back to the executive branch.
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This must be the job of a properly prepared executive branch.
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There also must be guarantees of transparency by the executive branch.
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The executive branch enforces the law; it does not make it.
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It was the executive branch that announced some action on Wednesday.
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Trump appears to be increasingly isolated even within the executive branch.
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In the meantime, there's much that the executive branch can do.
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Republicans hold all nine elective offices in the state's executive branch.
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Or was the President's executive branch power crucial in the crime?
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Congress has ceded all of its authority to the executive branch.
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Over the years, too much was ceded to the executive branch.
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Wednesday, allowing for the territory's executive branch to designate a successor.
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The executive branch cannot spend one penny unless Congress allows it.
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His research includes the historical development of the American executive branch.
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In our experience, such Executive Branch briefings have always been bipartisan.
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Maria should be a lesson: We need a working executive branch.
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The executive branch has exerted its own influence on the law.
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More and more policy has been made in the executive branch.
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"Congress cannot assume the role of the executive branch," he said.
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Wall Street is reminding Americans a weakened executive branch carries risks.
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Not so, though, for executive branch officials other than the president.
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"That is the prerogative of the executive branch," Mr. Indyk said.
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It's the only meaningful executive-branch oversight of the intelligence community.
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And it's up to the executive branch to constantly improve it.
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Consider that the executive branch cannot be responsible for presidential oversight.
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The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union.
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Congress prohibited the executive branch from taking similar action in 2010.
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The executive branch is making a lot of people nervous lately.
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The president vetoes bills, appoints judges, and runs the executive branch.
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I think it allows us to see how these televangelists, who make connections with the executive branch, can be used as religious cover for what the F.B.I. and the executive branch more broadly wants to do.
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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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"The President is not above the law, and I don't accept the notion that because the President is the head of the executive branch he can't ever obstruct justice in connection with executive branch activities," Comey said.
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"It is our constitutional responsibility to be a check on the executive branch and we have the responsibility to have oversight of the agencies of the executive branch and we fully intend to implement that," she said.
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So CNN National Security Analyst Sam Vinograd and I made this CNN Digital video covering the Constitutional authority of Congress to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch, and the options Congress has when the Executive Branch stonewalls.
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It can also be hard to get the executive branch to help.
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Today the executive branch can monitor many different aspects of our lives.
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He could turn to the executive branch as a source of power.
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But not all agencies are under the jurisdiction of the executive branch.
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We asked the executive branch to investigate itself, which guaranteed "obstruction" questions.
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The policy of this executive branch is to reduce crime in America.
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Prong 2: Use regulatory actions to dismantle Obamacare through the executive branch.
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Those briefs do not reflect the considered view of the executive branch.
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And it illustrates how the executive branch now unilaterally makes public policy.
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Without exception, the courts defer to executive branch determinations of national security.
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Being a CMS administrator is a critical job in the Executive Branch.
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Our Founders never envisioned this in the role of the Executive Branch.
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NCLB also gave the executive branch a lot of discretion over implementation.
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Was the executive branch disregarding a court order and if so, why?
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Hamilton, a proponent of centralized executive branch power, would be very pleased.
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Today's congressional capacity to hold the executive branch accountable is virtually nonexistent.
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The OLC crafts legal opinions that guide and constrain the executive branch.
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Trump is moving quickly to put his stamp on the executive branch.
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When the 1990s executive branch became puritanical, Congress never got the memo.
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Under normal circumstances, the executive branch would be responsible for this dialogue.
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The executive branch has no one single agency assigned to handle cyber.
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It's intended to force the executive branch to articulate its "big picture".
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Over time, Congress has unwisely ceded this power to the executive branch.
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Members have given away their law-making power to executive branch agencies.
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Too often, executive branch offices have denied or unduly delayed those requests.
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The executive branch cannot repeal the Affordable Care Act on its own.
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But most of these accomplishments were the work of the executive branch.
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Secondly, while this executive branch step was absolutely necessary, it is insufficient.
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The memo itself contained no executive branch-originated intelligence reports or documents.
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But the executive branch is not subject to the president's dictatorial control.
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Congress is vested by the Constitution with oversight of the executive branch.
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The actions of the executive branch are being insufficiently checked and balanced.
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"He alone is the Executive branch," Mr. Barr wrote of the president.
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Those are things that only Congress and the executive branch can address.
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But the executive branch in 1974 supported sending the evidence to Congress.
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The Constitution says nothing about congressional power to investigate the executive branch.
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And federal judges often defer to the executive branch on immigration policy.
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Congress and the executive branch, critics say, have been slow to react.
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"One team with one mission," he said of the Trump executive branch.
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To his credit, he rebuked Dershowitz's theory of an unbounded executive branch.
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It is still binding by custom and practice in the executive branch.
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Employees of the executive branch have gotten into the act as well.
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That it would exercise Congress's institutional role in checking executive branch wrongdoing?
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Now, can the GAO do much if the executive branch stonewalls them?
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But beginning with Theodore Roosevelt, the executive branch began to assert itself.
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OMB is the main executive branch body responsible for Antideficiency Act compliance.
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The proposed law triggered concerns from various corners of the executive branch.
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The report belongs with Congress, he has said, not the executive branch.
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Directing other executive-branch agencies and personnel to defy subpoenas for documents.
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The GOP is in control of the House, Senate, and executive branch.
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Directing other executive branch agencies and personnel to defy subpoenas for documents.
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Such training is mandatory for executive branch employees, but not for Congress.
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And in most usage, referring to the executive branch U.S. is appropriate.
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The executive branch has no one single agency assigned to handle cyber.
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Federal law prohibits executive branch employees from profiting personally off their work.
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They have gagged every single executive branch employee from going and testifying.
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Executive Branch investigations are more publicly confidence-inspiring than current congressional investigations.
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And that is the Office of Legal Counsel within the Executive Branch.
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That should worry anyone who cares about competence in the executive branch.
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Just as important, they provided an important counterweight to the executive branch.
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Any such resolution would have to consider the constitutional prerogatives and confidentiality interests of the co-equal Executive Branch, see Tab D, and ensure fundamental fairness to any Executive Branch employees involved in this process, including Ms. Cooper.
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There is an accumulation of power in the executive branch that is unprecedented.
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Executive branch officials have been developing the new framework and system for years.
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The executive branch could also affect the portfolio of BuzzFeed chairman Ken Lerer.
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Cases involving furloughed lawyers from the executive branch of government may be delayed.
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Unless and until Democrats drop all of their investigations into the Executive Branch.
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The question for Congress and the executive branch will be what happens next.
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The White House account takes you behind the scenes of the executive branch.
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Another 52% said they are confident he can manage the executive branch effectively.
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There was deep involvement of several top executive branch officials over the weekend.
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When legislation was not forthcoming, the executive branch threw its weight around instead.
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Inslee would establish two important new, or modified, agencies in the executive branch.
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The 1939 law prohibits executive branch employees from engaging in some political activities.
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It's also a nice reminder of what a functional executive branch looks like.
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Under American law, the executive branch has nearly complete authority over refugee policy.
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Since this was done through the executive branch alone, it was inherently unstable.
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The legislature has the power obviously to oversee and investigate the executive branch.
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He should be cooperative and Congress should be cooperative of the executive branch.
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He should be cooperative and Congress should be cooperative with the executive branch.
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Perhaps immigration adjudications should be moved from the Executive Branch to the Judicial.
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I head up the executive branch; we're supposed to be carrying out laws.
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A President can hire and fire executive branch officials as he sees fit.
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Over many decades, the executive branch has accumulated powers traditionally held by Congress.
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Job Description: The FBI is in the Executive Branch of the federal government.
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Then, under former President Obama, they gained a foothold in the executive branch.
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But it could miss some key supporters in the executive branch this year.
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The aides noted, however, that the Executive Branch might object to similar provisions.
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"There is a swathe of secrecy over the entire executive branch," Rosenberg said.
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The program offers top tech talent opportunities to serve in the executive branch.
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The effectiveness of the executive branch depends to a great degree on secrecy.
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The transition underway in our executive branch of government has been undeniably chaotic.
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"Congress has routinely ceded control over spending to the executive branch," Republicans say.
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He chased her out of the executive branch as soon as he could.
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He is more of an outsider and can fill that executive branch lane.
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"We cannot allow destabilization of the executive branch during a war," he said.
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A legislative committee can issue a subpoena requiring information from the executive branch.
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It is curious, then, that executive branch officials have unnecessarily restrained these efforts.
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We follow the law here; that's what we do in the executive branch.
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The court's conservatives also tend to favor the executive branch, but not always.
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Lawmakers in Chile usually approve the proposed budget's sent by the executive branch.
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Throughout American history, Congress has rejected executive branch agreements or required significant changes.
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That there's going to be a divide between the legislative and executive branch.
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Executive branch workers, meanwhile, have long had to take sexual harassment awareness training.
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The whole prosecutorial function is vested by the Constitution in the executive branch.
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Over the decades, presidents in both parties have gradually strengthened the executive branch.
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Congress has yielded more and more power to the executive branch over decades.
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"We cannot allow detribalization of the executive branch during a war," Yatseniuk said.
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This is a very important check against a dictatorial presidency or executive branch.
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Willing to be held accountable Transparency from the executive branch is often expected.
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Later, a powerful committee chairman threatened the ethics office overseeing the Executive Branch.
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You can't expect impartiality from the executive branch either, to put it mildly.
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In seeking to influence the executive branch, the president is not without help.
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Trump has violated norms, but his executive branch officials thus far have not.
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But concern over executive branch overreach seems largely confined to the pundit class.
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We'll soon find out whether they'll think the same of the executive branch.
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They did so while facing opposition from the executive branch and the military.
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It would effectively let the executive branch undermine legislative power of the purse.
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No president in recent memory has upended internal executive branch norms so much.
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One, the lawyers wrote, confidentiality within the executive branch is a constitutional privilege.
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Democrats control the executive branch in 20 of the nation's 25 largest cities.
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Congressional deference to the executive branch on foreign affairs has been well established.
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Congress has repeatedly granted the executive branch broad power in enforcing immigration laws.
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But the agencies are part of the executive branch, headed by the president.
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Still lingering: Obamacare repeal and replace, executive branch nominations and the debt ceiling.
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The executive branch will continue to determine the course of action with Iran.
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Other senior officials in the executive branch are required to divest their assets.
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Rather than standing behind the White House, they were undermining the executive branch.
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Hundreds of other former executive branch staffers and appointees populate K Street firms.
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Specifically, we need to prepare the executive branch for a new cold war.
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It's the Democrats who have been staffing the executive branch for eight years.
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Republicans control the executive branch and the Senate, while Democrats control the House.
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He also is the head of the executive branch of the US government.
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A dysfunctional Congress cedes too much power to the executive branch of government.
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In this case, the company is the executive branch of the US government.
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The executive branch still has a remarkable amount of power on health care.
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It also establishes workable funding levels for those executive branch appropriations for 2019.
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In other words, it is the executive branch changing policy on its own.
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But executive branch agencies are still refusing to comply with subpoenas for documents.
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Meaningful oversight of the tech industry from the executive branch is equally absent.
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The 1939 law bars executive branch employees from engaging in some political activities.
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Checking the executive branch Obviously, oversight is a critical component of Congress's job.
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Excluding Department Counsel places the witness in the untenable position of having to decide whether to answer the Committees' questions or to assert Executive Branch confidentiality interests without an attorney from the Executive Branch present to advise on those interests.
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It's up to the executive branch to comply, and actually getting them to do so can be difficult, precisely because the executive branch is the one with the power to prosecute the individual who isn't complying with Congress's subpoena request.
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Dissenting from the D.C. Circuit's ruling, Judge Kavanaugh concluded that provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act insulating the PCAOB from the executive branch through a double for-cause removal structure violated the President's Article II authority to supervise the executive branch.
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"The president has hobbled his own executive branch, and the executive branch has hobbled its own president," said Strobe Talbott, a Russia expert who served as deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration and was president of the Brookings Institution.
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Ed Felten is a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent executive branch agency that works to ensure that efforts by the executive branch to protect the nation from terrorism appropriately safeguard privacy and civil liberties.
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" It would be odd, he wrote, for that requirement to change, for example, "if the executive branch fails to immediately detain the noncitizen because of resource constraints or because the executive branch cannot immediately locate and apprehend the individual in question.
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The Senate vets and confirms senior executive branch officials, including the US attorney general.
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Allowing the litigation would distract the executive branch from performing its duties, he added.
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Why do these two private citizens have so much sway with the executive branch?
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You have you special counsels to investigate higher-ups in the executive branch i.e.
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Congress also needs to make sure the executive branch doesn't run out the clock.
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" Then he claimed "the executive branch is lying its a-- off about the report.
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"Rules" are regulations adopted by various executive branch agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Generally, courts are reluctant to step into fights between the executive branch and Congress.
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Instead, it's determined by broader macroeconomic policies that the executive branch and Congress set.
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Federal law gives authority over immigration matters to the executive branch, not the courts.
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And the president is right to demand as chief executive of the executive branch.
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The FBI is technically part of the Justice Department — and thus the executive branch.
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Well, the president of the United States is in charge of the executive branch.
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The Constitution grants Congress far-reaching oversight authority with regard to the executive branch.
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Congress has tools for exercising that authority, even when an executive branch agency resists.
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Maybe the Supreme Court has just been reacting to an increasingly aggressive executive branch.
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Congress writes the laws; the executive branch enforces them; and the courts interpret them.
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Like all executive branch positions, her continued service depends on the president's continued satisfaction.
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The House GOP sued Obama's executive branch over the payments, arguing they are unconstitutional.
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The rule would preserve all other ways to defund and repeal executive branch actions.
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Tech nonetheless remains engaged with numerous policy battles in Congress and the executive branch.
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Third, there is no law prohibiting registered lobbyists from serving in the executive branch.
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Article II of the Constitution created and expressly granted powers to the executive branch.
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The Constitution never says a word about the "proper" structure for executive-branch agencies.
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The executive branch fighting with the judiciary is not a new, Trump-era issue.
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Absent legislative barriers, the executive branch will tend toward vigorous use of its power.
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Trump does have the power to hire and fire executive branch officials at will.
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And who can deny that America's executive branch is both terrifying and hugely entertaining?
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But the use of government planes is overseen — and approved — by the executive branch.
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The executive branch has grown more and more powerful over the past few decades.
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Most presidents sign orders that change executive branch policy shortly after they take office.
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The signals a President sends set the tone for ethics across the executive branch.
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Again, the executive branch went off on its own in carrying out key decisions.
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Every president's actions are tested by the court and, occasionally, the executive branch loses.
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Senate Democrats also are demanding cloture votes on many executive branch and judicial nominees.
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The Framers never intended for legislative powers to fall onto unelected executive branch officials.
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But he said the Senate had the vital role of checking the executive branch.
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Wilkie has decades of experience as a congressional aide and in the executive branch.
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Absent that, progress is still possible, but leadership in the executive branch is necessary.
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Seventeen percent said executive branch authorities need more power when it comes to monitoring.
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The second touchpoint is with the executive branch and how it enforces the law.
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"Obviously, Congress has oversight responsibilities for whatever action the executive branch takes," he said.
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An executive branch appointment or senior policymaking role on Capitol Hill would be helpful.
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Federal ethics rules prohibit executive branch employees from using their positions to endorse products.
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The result is a classic confrontation between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
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Projects pushed by the executive branch would face a similar review under the measure.
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The first reinstated the Mexico City policy, while a second limited executive branch hiring.
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This type of debate is a model for the rest of the executive branch.
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But they see the mechanism for addressing it sitting purely with the executive branch.
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Now, President Trump has given a long-awaited green light from the executive branch.
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He said there had been "ongoing discussions" on the issue within the executive branch.
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Congress can also withhold funding to the executive branch, essentially starving it into submission.
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But we should also see a special prosecutor in terms of the executive branch.
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" Ryan said it is "something that&aposs in the purview of the executive branch.
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Honestly, other than executive branch officials who can just resign, it's down to Congress.
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Michael Howell is a senior adviser for executive branch relations at the Heritage Foundation.
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Responsibility for U.S. export enforcement falls under the auspices of three executive branch agencies.
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While the executive branch is slowing down environmental regulations, it's speeding up judicial nominations.
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The 85033 AUMF has served the interests of both Congress and the executive branch.
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Unlike federal courts, immigration courts fall under the executive branch, not the judicial branch.
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Can a member of the executive branch simply defy a congressional subpoena for testimony?
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These are in addition to the internal oversight tools that the executive branch has.
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The technical job of the executive branch is to execute — or enforce — the law.
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Congress really doesn't like it when the executive branch treats it this high-handedly.
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The executive branch has tens of thousands of people making policy, across multiple agencies.
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All of these actions are within the power of the executive branch to take.
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The 1939 Hatch Act prohibits executive branch employees from engaging in some political activities.
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The president can instruct executive branch agencies to shield key evidence if he chooses.
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The executive branch, which employs a lot of smart bureaucrats, then writes the rules.
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It's impossible to be president without implementing an immigration policy through the executive branch.
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But the executive branch cannot function without some ability to keep presidential deliberations secret.
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It oversees ethics compliance in 130 executive branch agencies, covering 2.7 million civilian employees.
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She said the case had reached to the highest level of the executive branch.
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Congress pulled the trigger on a contempt action but the executive branch returned fire.
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George W. Bush's "war on terror" was almost entirely formulated by the executive branch.
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The executive branch is a place where presidents can really shape policy without Congress.
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The Constitution gives the executive branch broad latitude to run the nation's foreign policy.
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It falls under the executive branch but is independent and also reports to Congress.
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Developing rules and regulations is one of the primary tasks of the executive branch.
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Exploring the power of the executive branch fits into Warren's larger theory of governing.
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The political wisdom of importing excess baggage to the executive branch is another matter.
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"The truth is there's a well established deference to the executive branch," Chesney said.
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The "power of the purse" resides solely with Congress, not with the executive branch.
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There is no suggestion that it covers all presidential communications with executive branch officials.
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And Trump, far from draining this swamp, invited it in to the executive branch.
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Just as McConnell previously disrespected the executive branch, Trump has disrespected the legislative one.
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Pompeo early this week set the stage for executive branch resistance or perhaps negotiations.
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But Congress holds the purse strings that dictate how executive branch agencies are funded.
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Congress has repeatedly ceded its authority to authorize wars over to the executive branch.
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That threat contained the rumblings of institutional conflict between Congress and the executive branch.
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That means nobody in the executive branch — by this president's account — can investigate him.
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There are few jobs in the executive branch more important than national security adviser.
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The executive branch, he says, has a persistent problem in the American democratic system.
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This is the second bill this week to take aim at the executive branch.
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The conviction comes amid a scandal in the state's executive branch, with Republican Gov.
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"There needs to be one authority in the executive branch," he told the assembly.
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The law gives broad authority to the executive branch to shape health care policy.
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The binding operational directive issued in October applies to all federal and executive branch .
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Thomas Binion is director of Congressional and Executive Branch Relations at The Heritage Foundation.
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The binding operational directive issued in October applies to all federal and executive branch .
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So you know, people are expected to be loyal to their executive branch head.
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Those orders would be "inconsistent" with the duties of the executive branch, he said.
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Nor can we expect leadership from the executive branch, Congress or polarized state legislatures.
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But as a matter of political reality, executive branch officials generally heed committee objections.
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The idea is to allow the executive branch to move quickly in exigent circumstances.
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Chief Justice John Roberts has a record of high regard for executive branch prerogatives.
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Central to that is the ability to investigate the actions of the executive branch.
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The bottom five were the press, the executive branch, Facebook, political parties, and Congress.
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Heritage published Mandate for Leadership, a thousand-page plan for remaking the executive branch.
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Though the executive branch hasn't yet laid out a specific plan for how Facebook.
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They could make it harder for Trump to get his executive branch appointments through.
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Legal experts point out that Congress has little real power to enforce subpoenas against the executive branch, given that it must rely on criminal referrals to the very DOJ run by the executive branch, which can simply opt not to enforce them.
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Nixon took away the power of the president to control information in the executive branch by holding that the courts had power and jurisdiction to order the president to disclose information in response to a subpoena sought by a subordinate executive branch official.
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Anytime the White House (or the Justice Department, or the State Department, or any other executive branch agency) receives a subpoena from Congress, the executive branch agency can laugh, put the subpoena in a shredder, and toss the tiny pieces into the garbage.
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But the focus on judges and their lifetime appointments has meant that the lower-level executive branch nominees — what Mr. McConnell called "assistant secretaries of this, that and the other" — have stalled, leaving the executive branch resembling Swiss cheese, shot through with vacancies.
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Specifically, Reid referred to the Hatch Act, which prohibits political activity by Executive Branch officials.
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But most importantly, policy guidances are often not submitted to Congress by the executive branch.
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The press secretary should be the strongest advocate for the media in the executive branch.
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G.G. is less about transgender rights, and more about the limits of executive branch power.
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It needs the executive branch -- the Department of Justice -- or the courts to enforce them.
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It also gives more power to the executive branch to control where money is spent.
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Biden isn't the first member of the executive branch to try to prioritize cancer research.
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The China strategy appears to be part of a coordinated effort across the executive branch.
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And the executive branch -- which includes the president and the Department of Justice -- enforces it.
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He added that Congress, not the executive branch, has the authority to control government spending.
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It's the constitutional mechanism for investigating whether an executive-branch officer is fit to serve.
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In practice, the executive branch has some options when it wants to move money around.
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It shall be the policy of the executive branch to buy American and hire American.
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Most significantly, the Obama administration did little to curtail the power of the executive branch.
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The CRA allows Congress to overrule recently enacted regulatory initiatives passed by the executive branch.
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Court orders have been ignored by the executive branch and security services have arrested journalists.
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Yes, the executive branch must make hard choices about how to marshal its limited resources.
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But if the lawsuit does move forward, it has implications for the entire executive branch.
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Thomas Binion is the director of Congressional and Executive Branch Relations at The Heritage Foundation.
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The big picture: As Congress becomes more dysfunctional, more power goes to the executive branch.
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But that is a judgement allocated by Congress and the Constitution to the executive branch.
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They are part of the executive branch and their officials take orders from the president.
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Congress legislates, obviously, but it also investigates and shapes the functioning of the executive branch.
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The last was in 1973, when Watergate shattered the public's trust in the executive branch.
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To prevent similar misconduct, Argentina created a public prosecutor's office free from executive branch control.
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She will have subpoena power to get information from the president and the executive branch.
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A tool that the executive branch has is the 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act.
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Mr. Medavoy is one of four candidates for a spot representing the academy's executive branch.
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Inertia within Congress and the executive branch makes reducing the scope of federal activity difficult.
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Congress became a rubber stamp, and the courts became another agency of the executive branch.
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The ideal candidate will have experience working in Congress, the executive branch, or relevant journalism.
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More than half of those cloture votes have been on executive branch nominees by Trump.
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The proposal would only apply to district court and sub-Cabinet level executive branch nominees.
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"Buy American" requirements seem to be in vogue with Congress and in the executive branch.
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The US executive branch cannot execute similar stimulus without a spending bill approved by Congress.
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Furthermore, as drafted now, the provision looks like a power grab by the executive branch.
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As Scalia suggested, most Republicans would jettison these proposals if they controlled the executive branch.
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It would subject all unilateral executive branch action restricting trade – including tariffs – to congressional approval.
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" He then elaborated: "This is something that is in the purview of the executive branch.
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We haven't voted on much other than on judges and a few [executive branch] noms.
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Congress' role should not be limited to overseeing the executive branch, although that's certainly important.
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Leaking, particularly by whistle-blowers, is predictable when the executive branch does not heed dissent.
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The Senate has spent most of 2019 voting on Trump's judicial and executive branch nominees.
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Executive privilege does not provide blanket protection to everything that happens in the executive branch.
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He governs, as if his executive branch already stood triumphant over the rule of law.
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It's also unclear whether such memoranda, as executive branch policy, would be binding on Mueller.
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So discretion on the part of executive branch officials is hard-wired into the system.
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The Constitution prescribes this right to Congress and the executive branch, not the activist courts.
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That's why we have so many institutions that are responsible for overseeing the executive branch.
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Thomas Binion is the director of congressional and executive branch relations at The Heritage Foundation.
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He treated the League Covenant as a purely executive branch prerogative and refused to compromise.
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The heart of this and what spurred it is a look at the executive branch.
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There is this direct conflict going on between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
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But in the FISC, with rare exceptions, the judges hear only from the executive branch.
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Under the Constitution's separation of powers, only the executive branch can directly enforce the law.
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Ryan says the issue is something in the purview of the executive branch, not Congress.
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That should be troubling to anyone who claims to fear overreach by the executive branch.
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Trump also ordered executive-branch officials not to testify before the committee even if subpoenaed.
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The vast majority of the power to address this pandemic resides in the executive branch.
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Unlike other courts, however, immigration courts fall under the executive branch, not the judicial branch.
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Such a structure, the argument goes, encroaches on the President's authority over the Executive Branch.
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It took six years for a national response to be initiated from the executive branch.
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That is exclusively because congressional Republicans have shown essentially no interest in executive branch oversight.
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Embedding loyal staff members is a key component of presidential influence over the executive branch.
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The law still prohibits the executive branch from doing some of the things immigrants fear.
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Justice Thomas said the courts should give executive branch officials the benefit of the doubt.
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The problem with doing this through the executive branch, Kamin and Hemel argue, is twofold.
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"Especially since 9/11, Congress has let power accumulate in the executive branch," Dudziak said.
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The resistance to the president from within the executive branch is not a new phenomenon.
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For several decades now, Congress has gradually ceded its war authority to the executive branch.
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If it stands, the ruling could essentially render congressional subpoenas of the executive branch unenforceable.
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"I don't like tipping the power of the purse to the executive branch," she said.
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"The investigations thus implicated both national security and immigration, core powers of the executive branch."
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How does a chamber of Congress go about wringing information from an unwilling executive branch?
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The power to make war should be with the Congress, not with the executive branch.
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Trump has vowed to crack down on leakers in the executive branch and intelligence community.
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They left it up to the executive branch to fill in all the regulatory blanks.
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Without unfettered access to executive branch officials and documents, the power of impeachment is crippled.
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Former executive branch officials will now also be permanently banned from serving as foreign lobbyists.
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" Amash disagreed with that ruling, saying it creates "a rubber stamp for the executive branch.
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MLATs are generally negotiated by the executive branch, but must be ratified by the Senate.
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Executive branch departments and agencies have uniformly rejected subpoenas and document requests from House Democrats.
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The same America that allows the executive branch to perform extrajudicial killings of Muslims overseas.
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There is no meaningful oversight from the executive branch, which makes the bureau uniquely unaccountable.
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Many executive branch lawyers in Republican administrations have been hostile to the War Powers Resolution.
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Every senior career professional in the Executive Branch knows that — from years of ethics training.
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"The President disregarded the constitutional ability of Congress to oversee the executive branch."https://t.
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An executive branch guidance document cannot substitute, constitutionally, for an unambiguous condition imposed by Congress.
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The president's allies are urging him to finish the job inside the executive branch (Politico).
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"The summary seems to leave a lot of discretion to executive branch regulators," said Richardson.
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Congress has requested that the executive branch certify every 90 days whether Iran is complying.
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Veteran lawmakers have been shown to help reign in military action by the executive branch.
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Unsurprisingly, when the executive branch has a choice, it often prefers not to impose them.
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We have no power to commandeer an Executive Branch agency into conducting our due diligence.
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Thus, the executive branch and Congress will have to prioritize projects — fairly and with transparency.
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The judges are dubious about the credibility of what the executive branch says is happening.
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At that time, Congress and the executive branch were in a constitutional tug-of-war.
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Chaffetz would be free, though, to lobby the executive branch immediately after leaving Capitol Hill.
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Going to war used to be something the executive branch and legislative branch did together.
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But reversing this trend requires a sustained focus across the executive branch and Capitol Hill.
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" The letter ends by noting the agency would work toward "protecting Executive Branch confidentiality interests.
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As an executive branch employee, Cordray cannot engage in campaign activity until leaving the CFPB.
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They attracted no controversy because Congress has wanted the executive branch to operate that way.
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This doctrine forbids Congress from assigning its legislative powers to the federal government's executive branch.
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But they haven't given up, and Trump's executive branch has continued to undermine the law.
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"If he is arrested, so too is the executive branch of the government," they write.
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Trump is already swamped by executive branch investigations and a host of other legal threats.
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In particular, if Congress affirmatively authorizes the executive branch to spend money on something, it is doubtful that a private party would have standing to challenge the decision by the executive branch not to expend funds for some particular purpose within that broad authorization.
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"Congress' inability or unwillingness to pass a law desired by the executive branch does not default authority to the executive branch to act independently, regardless of whether hydraulic fracturing is good or bad for the environment or the citizens of the United States," he wrote.
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This, according to Kavanaugh, is unconstitutional because it violates the unitary nature of the executive branch.
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Gillibrand has opposed 94.6% of President Trump's executive branch nominations, more than any other Senate Democrat.
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It's Congress' job, after all, to oversee the executive branch -- especially when there is potential criminality.
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And the decision has a constitutional view that executive branch agencies have far too much discretion.
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INGRAHAM: Well, he is also the chief executive officer of the executive branch, of the government.
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The United States, through its executive branch, must call upon the United Nations to take action.
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The Democratic nominee should assume that the executive branch will be used against him or her.
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Judged by spending, though, the executive branch is actually less imperial than under Eisenhower or Kennedy.
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The DoJ's foray into the question thus pits one arm of the executive branch against another.
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So, sure, the executive branch could do some things to make the ban harder to challenge.
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United States, examining Congress's ability to delegate legislative authority to executive branch officials or administrative agencies. ?
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The national security adviser position is an executive branch job that does not require Senate confirmation.
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"It's going to turn over a lot more rocks than the executive branch wants," said Issa.
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It falls under the aegis of the Department of Transportation, which is in the executive branch.
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In the past, judges have accorded the executive branch and Congress special deference for military policy.
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The executive branch will of course dodge these limits whenever its lawyers can halfway justify it.
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Survey respondents are asked to submit their ideas to "reorganize the executive branch" by June 12.
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But she is free to advocate before other members on Capitol Hill and the executive branch.
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It is also subject to the capital gains tax deferrals for executive branch officials and employees.
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Our Constitution does not grant monarchical legislative prerogative, cloaked as executive orders, in the executive branch.
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Sunlight hopes to expand the number of politicians to include executive branch officials and state legislators.
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Next, set up two blue-ribbon commissions: one on executive branch organization and one on entitlements.
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His toolkit of potential executive branch actions is large and varied, but it is not unlimited.
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The executive branch, you see, offers employees Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards which contain smart chips.
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Chaffetz is head of the committee that is the House's investigatory arm into the Executive Branch.
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" Federal ethics rules prohibit employees in the executive branch from endorsing "any product, service, or enterprise.
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No. The executive branch doesn't have the authority to dictate the terms of the federal budget.
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Chaffetz is head of a committee that is the House's investigatory arm into the Executive Branch.
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But when it comes to immigration, the courts have traditionally given the executive branch wide latitude.
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In contrast, Congress's "disapproval resolutions" are quick and effective, striking down executive branch rules right away.
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What's more, I have no doubt that leaks come from various agencies within the executive branch.
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But the Green New Deal will need the power, influence, and support of the executive branch.
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Judicial nominations are a collaborative exercise of Congress, the executive branch, and outside groups with expertise.
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In the Senate, that would mean McConnell continues his focus on judicial and executive branch confirmations.
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It would hold hearings, conduct research, and make recommendations for industry, the Executive Branch and Congress.
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And it doesn't even include the massive churn in the executive branch among top Trump staffers.
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The discretion that Congress has given to the executive branch adds another hurdle for asylum seekers.
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The committee's most important recommendation, an executive branch "coordination mechanism" to deal with crises, is commendable.
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The daily briefing is traditionally the most valuable window into what the executive branch is doing.
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This additional power must be administered; that falls to the executive branch and ultimately the president.
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So, here we are, seven years later, and the executive branch bureaucracy is still not listening.
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That delay has given Congress a deadline to make the executive branch policy permanent in law.
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Rules and transparency requirements for legal defense funds established by executive branch officials should be enhanced.
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He described Mr. Mueller's approach as 'grossly irresponsible' with 'potentially disastrous implications' for the executive branch.
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We don't have to be subservient to the executive branch and so I spoke out before.
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The success of the agencies of the government's executive branch should be a priority of everyone.
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Congress has been critical to checking misguided executive branch policies on security assistance in the past.
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The result is greater contempt for Congress from the executive branch, which leads to less transparency.
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And this is where I challenge Congress and our executive branch decision makers to 'think different.
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It is a power grab by the executive branch that would serve no legitimate policy goal.
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The executive branch does not have anything comparable to deal with potential conflicts involving the president.
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The report outlined 645 actions across 249 areas for Congress and the executive branch to address.
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Against that tide, the executive branch has tried to make the country more hospitable to Muslims.
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Confidentiality arguments In past independent counsel investigations, lawyers in the executive branch have tried that strategy.
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"You know a supermajority gives more power to the legislature than the executive branch," he said.
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The most "obvious" problem area in Trump's executive branch is the State Department, according to Stier.
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The training is not mandatory for people employed on Capitol Hill, unlike in the executive branch.
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The entire executive branch ethics program depends on employees seeking proactive advice from agency ethics officials.
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Since then, FOIA has shined a bright light in the dark corners of the Executive branch.
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Democrats will argue they are engaged in the important business of holding the executive branch accountable.
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Most former secretaries of state served in the executive branch or were governors or elected officials.
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As the head of the executive branch, the President is ultimately in charge of law enforcement.
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But he considers excessive spending, particularly on executive branch travel, to be an issue of concern.
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Once the contempt citation is received, any prosecution lies within the control of the executive branch.
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The job of carrying out the law provides the executive branch with incredible amounts of discretion.
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The modern executive branch relies on competent leadership; in its absence, it inevitably begins to decay.
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But in practice, this law is generally toothless in disputes between Congress and the executive branch.
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Chief Justice Roberts wrote that executive branch officials ordinarily had broad discretion to make policy judgments.
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Chief Justice Roberts wrote that executive branch officials ordinarily have broad discretion to make policy judgments.
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And the executive branch can only do so much to change grant conditions without Congress's involvement.
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Under ordinary circumstances, lawmakers use their oversight powers to keep an eye on the executive branch.
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That person could be from any part of the executive branch, not necessarily the Justice Department.
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Their goal was to make it the least political, most independent part of the executive branch.
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Obviously, it omits the realities of Trump's widespread executive-branch crackdown on legal and unauthorized immigration.
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Under the Constitution, the president wields broad authority to control the actions of the executive branch.
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A sprawling and unaccountable executive branch and metastasizing national security state threatened to make Congress irrelevant.
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The rapid erasure of Mr. Mallott from the executive branch website was also sharp and sudden.
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However, there is another law, the Vacancies Reform Act, that applies generally across the executive branch.
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The plan would ban senior executive branch officials from ever lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.
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The assertion that Congress has authorized the executive branch to use force against Iran is unsound.
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Mr. Cipollone also said that the executive branch would no longer willingly provide testimony or documents.
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The filings from the executive branch came Friday to meet a court-ordered January 31 deadline.
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Eggleston said it was a mistake to announce the executive branch was not going to cooperate.
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In this case, lawmakers were briefed on the Russian document in addition to executive branch officials.
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You can't help noticing certain parallels between Carlotta and the current head of our executive branch.
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In any other administration, this decision would have been an earthquake reverberating across the executive branch.
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Climate scientists are feeling the heat as Republicans cement control of the executive branch and Congress.
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Last November, an OMB lawyer said the executive branch didn't have to abide by GAO rulings.
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The lawsuit is the latest front in the fight between the House and the executive branch.
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Any other year, with Republicans controlling both chambers and the executive branch, that might have happened.
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Regulations are constitutionally problematic because they are not passed by Congress, but by the executive branch.
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Sexual harassment awareness training is currently not mandatory for congressional staff, unlike in the executive branch.
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NOEL J. FRANCISCO, THE SOLICITOR GENERAL: It's up to the executive branch to set it up.
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Compliance with the so-called Hatch Act is always a key requirement for executive branch employees.
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They lobbied members of Congress and members of the executive branch in the US around 2013.
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The White House has blocked executive branch witnesses from testifying and withheld key documents from Congress.
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Maguire said Thursday that the executive branch did not make a decision to defy a Sept.
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But executive branch lawyers typically determine when the government has the power to kill someone abroad.
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It requires a rejiggering of the entire system: the courts, of Congress, and, the executive branch.
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"Your clients are private citizens who are not employees of the Executive Branch," the chairmen wrote.
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And anti-sanctuary, anti-immigrant, anti-refugee sentiment is hardly confined to the federal executive branch.
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We can remove cannabis from the schedule in two ways, through the legislative or executive branch.
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Should Trump's veto succeed, Congress could look for other ways of reining in the executive branch.
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It created a package of reform ideas to make Congress and the executive branch work together.
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For his part, the IG says the executive branch is keeping him from doing his job.
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Elevating indictments while resisting impeachment cedes a massive amount of Congress's authority to the executive branch.
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He had issued a clear order to Cox, who was an employee of the executive branch.
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We have an executive branch, and we have a system that relies on balance of power.
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You see this battle between Congress and the executive branch that we're continuing to live through.
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The executive branch then further watered it down with very generous special exemptions to the mandate.
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Congress is an organization that has a great deal of power to thwart the executive branch.
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The executive branch could, legally, pass a rule to force corporations to disclose their political donors.
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Term limits are the surest way to weaken the legislative branch and empower the executive branch.
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And he's on a mission to use the "authority" of the executive branch to stop it.
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"He alone is the executive branch," Mr. Barr wrote in an unsolicited June 8, 2018 memo.
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The executive branch has broader powers and more leeway on foreign policy than on other issues.
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Top aides often go on to jobs in the executive branch or run for Congress themselves.
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Turning to the executive branch, Trump's transition already reveals some parallels between his administration and Carter's.
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Neither is likely to happen, given who's in charge of the Senate and the executive branch.
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Nor did the Clinton impeachment rein in the executive branch, as Watergate did, at least temporarily.
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The president is the head of the executive branch, but he is not above the law.
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VICE: What happens when there are staffing problems in the executive branch of the federal government?
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" Kavanaugh said the case "took away the power of the president to control information in the executive branch by holding that the courts had power and jurisdiction to order the president to disclose information in response to a subpoena sought by a subordinate executive branch official.
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One high-profile example of this is Steve Bellovin, a Columbia University science professor who was recently appointed the first technology scholar on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency within the executive branch that advises the president and other senior executive branch officials.
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"The district court has improperly substituted its policy preferences for the national security judgments of the executive branch in a time of grave threats, defying both the lawful prerogatives of the executive branch and the directive of the Supreme Court," Mr. Sessions said in a statement.
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To find out how bad is this early confusion at the top of the incoming executive branch is, and what might happen if Trump delays making these hires, I called up Berkeley political science professor Sean Gailmard, who specializes in bureaucratic politics and executive branch structure.
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By not exerting itself on difficult issues, Congress created a vacuum that the executive branch naturally filled.
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How ICE uses its resources to catch and deport immigrants is a matter of executive branch policy.
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Donaldson declined to tell the committee why she had prepared to resign, citing executive branch confidentiality interests.
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For every new regulation proposed by the executive branch, another order said, two had to be repealed.
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Both the news media and the executive branch are accountable to the people of the United States.
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Monaco: That wouldn't be a lawyer in the White House as a matter of executive branch practice.
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I think there should be more involvement with congress and the executive branch in sharing those goals.
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Its job is to run ethics programs in the 130 different agencies that comprise the executive branch.
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Vocal critics of Trump's use of tariffs say Congress should reclaim trade powers from the executive branch.
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Tough executive branch oversight, which preoccupied Obama-era Republicans, vanished when their party won the White House.
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But at least twice previously, courts have overridden attempts by executive branch officials to avoid Congressional subpoenas.
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But the current rules say nothing about wait times to lobby the White House and executive branch.
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The decision whether (or not) to indict always sits in the Executive Branch, specifically the Justice Department.
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And by the way, they get all their money from Congress and they&aposre the executive branch.
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But Republicans largely defended Trump, particularly on Vindman, arguing executive branch positions are within the president's purview.
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The CFPB's independence is undermined if it's led by a sitting executive branch official, English's lawyers argued.
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The administration has never claimed that making such assurances is beyond the power of the executive branch.
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Burnham argued that the House of Representatives, as a general principle, could not sue the executive branch.
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Mooppan said the report was privileged because it represented protected presidential communications and internal executive branch deliberations.
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The presidential communications privilege and deliberative process privilege have related purposes: keeping executive branch decision-making private.
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Maybe people are just want to learn more about how the executive branch of the government works.
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The office is charged with ensuring members of the executive branch follow federal ethics laws and regulations.
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"Congress has a constitutional obligation to conduct oversight of the executive branch," he said in a statement.
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The Constitution does not grant to a single district judge the power to veto executive branch actions.
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This goes on and on and on, including, we had obstruction from the executive branch of government.
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Details: The executive branch does have an oversight structure in place, known as the vulnerabilities equities process.
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If adopted, the bill will abolish the prime ministry and unite the executive branch under the President.
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Sessions also objected to members of Congress asking judicial and executive branch nominees about their religious dogma.
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In one place, probation is part of the executive branch; In another, it's part of the judiciary.
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Since President Trump took office, federal district courts have issued 37 nationwide injunctions against the executive branch.
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"The more likely outcome is that the executive branch would ignore Congress," said Mr. Garber, the lawyer.
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The motion would have also allowed votes to subpoena documents from various executive branch departments and agencies.
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Congress and the executive branch have a panoply of tools at their disposal to confront this menace.
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The order also places a premium on adopting newer, more secure information technology in the executive branch.
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And now the executive branch is moving aggressively to scrap almost all previous efforts to reduce emissions.
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Within the executive branch, only the Department of Homeland Security has a deputy secretary confirmed and installed.
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Maduro has followed on Chavez's legacy by stifling dissent and steadily accumulating power to the executive branch.
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"The federal law should be obeyed – whether the EPA, the Executive Branch, or anyone else," Beyer said.
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It also advises the executive branch on conflict of interest issues and the release of financial disclosures.
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Gore helpfully sketched the idea on a napkin, drawing the executive branch as the control logic section.
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They also said that Congress has a duty to serve as a check on the executive branch.
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Now is Uber's head of federal affairs, handling the company's relationship with the executive branch and congress.
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Of the 556 executive branch jobs important enough to require Senate confirmation, only 24 have been filled.
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The new Russia sanctions would create a congressional review process if the executive branch eases current sanctions.
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Through the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), Congress has directed the Executive Branch to implement immigration policy.
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I was involved in congressional investigations requiring access to documents from the executive branch for 36 years.
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And they point to the President's Article II constitutional powers to run the executive branch without interference.
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It also crystallized the pardon as a tool for executive-branch officials to evade responsibility for crimes.
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"We've got an independent, constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight over the executive branch of government," he said.
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Law enforcement is gratified by the support and with a new executive branch administration comes new promise.
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The people have no such power, however, over other executive branch officials who might be abusing power.
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In theory, Congress creates the laws, the executive branch enforces the laws, and the judiciary interprets them.
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Helms flexed his muscles by aggressively using the committee to hold nominees to affect executive branch policy.
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The point is fair, but one Congress must back up with law, not the executive branch. Sen.
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If the proposals materialize, they will improve both the efficiency and the accountability of the executive branch.
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Before we worked on counterterrorism policy, two of us were national security lawyers in the executive branch.
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That occasion was not the first time that Mr. Friedman and the executive branch had crossed paths.
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Less well known is the fact that they are doing the same to his executive branch nominees.
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Restoring regular order will begin that process of restoring citizens' confidence in Congress and the executive branch.
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Enforcement priorities: The oldest accepted role of the executive branch of government is enforcement of the laws.
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It builds on its own precedent over time, creating a form of law within the executive branch.
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" The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee needs lawyers, too, posting jobs for "executive branch investigative counsel.
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"As everyone knows, the executive branch cannot build this wall without Congress," Letter said, according to Reuters.
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However, shockingly, numerous judges have weighed in to attempt to compel the executive branch to continue DACA.
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Merkley hit back against the president on Tuesday, saying the policy was decided by the executive branch.
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Congress has ceded authority to the executive branch, making it easy for presidents to go around lawmakers.
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"Only by consistently and forcefully resisting such congressional incursions can executive branch prerogatives be preserved," Barr wrote.
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It owes itself the resources needed to reach its own conclusions and to oversee the executive branch.
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The idea is that the president is the boss of the executive branch, which enforces the laws.
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They demanded greater transparency from the executive branch, which is a position that I have readily supported.
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It was at this time that Congress began to turn over debt management to the executive branch.
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Congressional office staff are not currently required to undergo sexual harassment awareness training, unlike executive branch employees.
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" Asked whose responsibility it is to provide such notice, Gallego said, "Somebody –– somebody in the executive branch.
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Second, the growth of the executive branch, particularly under the New Deal, has overwhelmed the old balance.
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"We have no power to commandeer an executive branch agency into conducting our due diligence," he wrote.
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So it can only augur further negative developments in the relationship between Congress and the executive branch.
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In fact, executive branch supremacy has risen in tandem with the full-time, Washington, D.C.-based Congress.
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Executive privilege protects the executive branch from having to turn over documents and information in some instances.
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Members of Congress and senior executive branch officials should publicly shame these operations for being propaganda services.
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Key champions in Congress and the Executive Branch have played a vital role in achieving this progress.
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His presence reveals a lot, since the court is supposed to be independent of the executive branch.
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The bill would also nullify any transfers that should have been blocked under existing executive branch orders.
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Seven of the judicial picks and five of the executive branch nominees received Senate confirmation on Tuesday.
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" Flake said: "We must stop pretending that the degradation of politics in our executive branch are normal.
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For example, Trump's hiring freeze has left thousands of policy expert jobs across the executive branch unfilled.
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Short of impeachment, this is the most aggressive legal action Congress can take against the executive branch.
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Previously, when Democrats ran the Senate, they ended the 60-vote hurdle on other executive branch nominations.
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In that world, the ability to creatively wield the powers of the executive branch will matter enormously.
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The president's ability to expedite the Keystone XL project may be strongest within the federal executive branch.
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The legislation requires Congress to review and approve any tariffs that are proposed by the executive branch.
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The Legislative and Executive Branch should put aside passivity and partisanship and finally modernize our immigration laws.
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The exchange highlights the shadow cast by the 2016 presidential race over actions by the executive branch.
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We have these African-Americans who are part of this evangelical advisory board in the executive branch.
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Instead, Mr. Ryan said, the memo was the product of Congress employing oversight of the executive branch.
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Most regulatory decisions are reviewable by the courts, and executive branch activities are overseen by congressional committees.
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Southern Wine & Spirits and the Teamster's Union wielded their political influence with California's legislature and executive branch.
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It shifted more power to Congress from the executive branch and spread it over several congressional committees.
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It could refer to someone in the White House or at any of the executive-branch agencies.
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Investigators focused on whether the president used his position atop the executive branch to impede their inquiry.
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Running the executive branch means making decisions (or appointing others to make decisions) about all of that.
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This congressional abdication of its constitutional responsibility and authority to such fundamental executive branch encroachments is unacceptable.
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The guidance for state executive branch officials will be reevaluated in 30 days, the governor's office said.
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"If the executive branch wants to concentrate on illegal entry, that is what they do," he said.
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Each is dependent on action by a different branch: Congress itself, the executive branch or the courts.
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"Our accountability is really to Congress," he said, driving home the Fed's independence from the executive branch.
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The time is long overdue to introduce comparable checks at the highest levels of the executive branch.
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The executive branch can't push through the president's priorities if it doesn't have his people in place.
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Previous executive branch officials of both parties have withheld information requested by Congress in the same manner.
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"The president cannot defy the agencies in the Executive Branch that are subordinate to him," he said.
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If the courts can't serve as a check on the executive branch, Congress could certainly step in.
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The next Democratic president will also be dealing with an executive branch gutted by the Trump presidency.
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The G.A.O. is well respected, and historically the executive branch has given substantial deference to its opinions.
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The Senate will be saying to America that corruption is an acceptable feature of the executive branch.
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The acting attorney general's performance appeared to exemplify an apparent contempt for oversight in the executive branch.
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It also suggested that the executive branch would appeal if the judge did not change his mind.
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Compelling Congress to stand up for its powers and against executive branch usurpation requires leadership and courage.
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Justice Department lawyers pointed out that the Constitution gives Congress and the executive branch authority over immigration.
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"Congress has been ceding far too much power to the executive branch for decades," said Lee recently.
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"You want members to understand the executive branch agencies that they're charged with overseeing, right?" he said.
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The letter also said the complaint potentially involved confidential and privileged matters relating to the executive branch.
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AliKhan and Sohoni also said the Administrative Procedure Act empowers federal judges to block executive-branch regulations.
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Sohoni said that the Supreme Court is always the final arbiter of challenges to executive-branch actions.
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" He wrote, "Only by consistently and forcefully resisting such congressional incursions can executive branch prerogatives be preserved.
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Trump leases the building for the hotel from the General Services Administration, part of the executive branch.
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The bipartisan measure is exactly the way Congress must check executive branch overreach and abuse of power.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tied the ruling to others blocking the executive branch from going around Congress.
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That's something that would have to be in the courts or by negotiation with the executive branch.
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And under OGE regulations, the agency will only grant certificates to current employees of the executive branch.
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Reid and the Democrats employed it in 2013 to eliminate filibusters of executive branch and judicial nominees.
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No one could articulate a good reason for concern, but nevertheless, executive branch reports and investigations began.
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Because impeachment is the most serious thing that Congress can do vis a vis the executive branch.
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Now they need to just open another line of lobbying, that's the executive branch, that's the FDA.
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He's talked about not really moving to the White House, the nerve center of the executive branch.
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Congressional oversight requires a certain amount of good-faith participation from the executive branch to work properly.
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Congress already ceded large swaths of its power to the executive branch over the last few decades.
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Prior executive branch witnesses have declined to answer such questions even without a prior executive privilege assertion.
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It is also unclear how much Trump will get into the details across the vast Executive branch.
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Outside groups had raised concerns over whether Larsen would be an independent check on the executive branch.
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Congress can pass laws that override laws made by executive branch agencies — or even decisions by courts.
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Court employees, like executive branch employees affected by the shutdown, would work without pay or be furloughed.
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"We need judges to stand up to the power of the executive branch of government," she said.
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"Only by consistently and forcefully resisting such congressional incursions can executive branch prerogatives be preserved," he wrote.
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They should remain entirely within the executive branch, at least for the first dozen or so positions.
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Booker, too, highlighted Kavanaugh's perspective on the executive branch as one of the positions that alarmed him.
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"The special counsel regulations grapple with how to police high-level executive branch wrongdoing," Mr. Katyal said.
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When the executive branch loses its moorings, it's up to Congress to steady the ship of state.
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Let the White House, which is the executive branch of government, do what they want to do.
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"The Committee received another document production today, bringing the total volume of Executive Branch records to more than 480,000 pages, dwarfing the total Executive Branch material for the last five confirmed nominees combined," the spokesperson told ABC, adding that the team has received documents on a rolling basis.
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The OLC policy itself is relatively straightforward: Most recently reevaluated in 2000, it argues that the executive branch would be incapacitated by a criminal prosecution: The indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.
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That being said, there are literally thousands of executive branch jobs that a new president needs to fill.
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He is not going to wade in much to the document dispute between Congress and the executive branch.
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The CEQ chief is responsible for coordinating environmental policy across the various agencies that comprise the executive branch.
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Federal hiring freeze The number of executive branch employees has floated around 2.7 million since the mid-1990s.
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That confusion creates a problem not just for the executive branch, but for all of the territory's citizens.
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The aftermath produced one certainty: Congress is hopelessly split in conducting executive branch oversight of the Trump administration.
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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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Please visit with your staff and make them aware of this shift in perspective within the executive branch.
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As a practical matter, Chevron deference can shift substantial power to the executive branch, and therefore the president.
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Worries about the stability of the leadership structure in the executive branch have begun seeping into the military.
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Under the Constitution, Congress is a co-equal branch of government alongside the executive branch and the judiciary.
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These sanctions are all administered by the executive branch, but Trump's power to do away with them varies.
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That ethos would ensure that the department was the most independent, least partisan agency of the executive branch.
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The DOJ, on the other hand, is part of the executive branch, making it accountable to the president.
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In court, Trump's lawyers have made a sweeping case to curtail Congress's ability to investigate the executive branch.
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The dispute over records related to Kavanaugh's time in the executive branch is mainly an intra-Senate one.
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After 240 years, the United States would have women filling the top two jobs in the executive branch.
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And they aren't just between Congress and executive branch officials and agencies, which is the more typical scenario.
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Hanen concluded the executive branch lacked authority to adopt the policy without going through a formal rulemaking process.
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That could be done administratively by the executive branch, or it could be a legislative enactment by Congress.
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Whether you disagree with this law, the executive branch, or Homeland Security, the court here got it right.
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While the Venezuelan opposition controls the Assembly, Mr. Maduro's leftist party controls the courts and the executive branch.
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If relations between Democratic legislators and the executive branch weren't bad already, they're only going to get worse.
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Executive branch officials are supposed to wait at least one hour after the official release time before commenting.
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In theory, the attorney general is supposed to run the Department of Justice independently of the executive branch.
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The sanctions are all administered by the executive branch, but Trump's power to do away with them varies.
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"Inherent in the committee's work is the responsibility to ask tough questions of the executive branch," Ryan said.
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The president's legal argument is that Congress does not have an unlimited right to investigate the executive branch.
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White House staff, congressional Republicans, military leaders, and executive branch officials are increasingly confident simply ignoring President Trump.
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"The crisis for these Americans needs more attention — and more urgency from the executive branch," tweeted Republican Sen.
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But since the Trump Administration came into office, news from the executive branch has kept them gainfully employed.
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INGRAHAM: Mark Meadows it&aposs been 122 years since a member of the executive branch has been impeached.
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INGRAHAM: Obviously I&aposm not talking about the president but an executive branch employee other than the president.
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Since 2013, only 50 votes are needed to approve executive branch appointees, and Republicans have more than that.
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Under our Constitution, impeachment extends all the way to the person who heads the executive branch, the president.
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Within the executive branch, it's hard to keep track of who has the latest instructions from the President.
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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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The Constitution states that Congress is the branch of government that should declare war, not the executive branch.
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One center of conflict will be executive branch oversight that the outgoing Republican majority has refused to undertake.
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Congress appropriates funds to the Executive branch with the expectation that those will be the only funds spent.
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Taken together, the judge's orders look like a shortcut to transparency in a moment of executive branch stonewalling.
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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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This lawsuit, however, will test the limits of Trump's power to appoint acting officials across the executive branch.
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Such an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch.
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The proposal would provide for a congressional review process if the executive branch eases current sanctions on Russia.
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As an executive branch agency, the department's authority is limited to those functions statutorily delegated by the Legislature.
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Streamlining and removing unnecessary burdens from the past administration can be accomplished by Congress or the executive branch.
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Other federal judges have also reined in the executive branch by questioning the constitutionality of Trump's travel ban.
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In the meantime, Congress has largely left it to the executive branch to tackle such a thorny issue.
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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 judicial branch consists of a supreme court appointed by the executive branch and confirmed by the legislative.
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The role of Legco is to debate the laws and budgets put forward by the territory's executive branch.
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Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Mueller isn't an employee of the executive branch.
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But his words may be undermining the power of the executive branch, and not just during his presidency.
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Why those two officials, and not someone from the executive branch — say, a member of the president's cabinet?
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Now comes the much more daunting challenge of taking it to the highest levels of the executive branch.
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They did so out of the limelight, while facing unprecedented interference on this matter from the Executive Branch.
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Grassley is set to request from the executive branch more documents related to Kavanaugh than any preceding nominee.
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Going forward, executive branch fixes for Trump's legislative wish list could become the norm in the nation's capital.
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In every instance, you see an executive branch saying "enough is enough" and turning around these runaway policies.
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Legislative deference to the executive branch rests on a lack of will rather than a lack of power.
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The overall result of the two bills would be to paralyze the executive branch and the independent agencies.
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The position of state counselor would allow her to coordinate the activities of Parliament and the executive branch.
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Senators could block presidential nominations to specific agencies to compel the executive branch to comply with document requests.
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Current law gives the Executive Branch too much power in negotiating civilian nuclear cooperative agreements with other countries.
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But in the longer term I think they actually will invite significant statutory erosion to the executive branch.
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The effort is unusual because of its magnitude and because it originates from the executive branch, not Congress.
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The president, who embodies the executive branch, executesthe law; he or she is not the source of law.
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The Cybersecurity Act of 2015, establishes provisions which permit the executive branch to provide such incentives to ISPs.
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He has strong ties to Justice Barr has been referred to as a product of the executive branch.
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Without it, executive branch agencies could keep spending in hopes of coercing the legislature for taxpayer money afterwards.
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"I would like to revisit the emergency powers that Congress has provided to the executive branch," said Sen.
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First, Congress must write laws more clearly and stop outsourcing hard policy decisions to executive branch civil servants.
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But we must also fulfill our constitutional duty to conduct oversight over the policies of the executive branch.
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And by seeking protection from the judicial branch, the executive branch believes it also buys time, McConnell hinted.
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Contrary to Beltway commentariat consensus, American bellicosity is not merely the result of uncontrolled executive branch war-making.
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In other words, it's member's job to know their district better than the bureaucrats in the executive branch.
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Additionally, all FBI personnel are bound by the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch.
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In effect, Jackson has declared that executive branch departments and agencies can use executive privilege to stonewall Congress.
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Nor is the Bureau subject to any meaningful oversight from the president as head of the Executive Branch.
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This amounts to a flat out denial that Congress has a legitimate role in overseeing the executive branch.
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Take the broad conflict of interest rules that apply to all executive branch appointees and career civil staff.
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Much of this reform was undertaken through the executive branch — a necessary step, but one that isn't permanent.
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But the final plank of the agenda is the executive branch, where the damage has only just begun.
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The Supreme Court since then has repeatedly sided with the executive branch in its disputes with the legislature.
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That possibility could have a chilling effect on journalists who simply want to hold the executive branch accountable.
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The "zero-tolerance" policy is not law, and could be changed by the executive branch at any time.
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Diosdado Cabello, head of the pro-government Constituent Assembly, referred questions about Acosta's case to the executive branch.
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Trump has used the prerogatives of the executive branch to nearly obliterate U.S. censure of anti-democratic regimes.
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The president and the rest of the executive branch play crucial roles in the conduct of foreign policy.
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In addition to the state of emergency, Baker announced new guidance for Massachusetts' executive branch for the outbreak.
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That's why the Constitution gives Congress tremendous power to investigate and even remove officials in the executive branch.
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The Helms amendment leaves some room for interpretation, and the executive branch can choose how to interpret it.
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The idea that they're like, to prove this claim we're gonna ask Congress to investigate the executive branch.
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Effective management of the White House is a precondition for presidential power and influence in the executive branch.
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The party wins elections pandering to culture war issues that mostly aren't even executive branch issues at all.
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He threatened retaliation if Democrats tried to exercise their constitutional authority to conduct oversight of the executive branch.
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But a sense of urgency did not rise to the highest levels of Congress or the executive branch.
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Some lawyers say he has a point, that the Constitution gives him wide latitude over the executive branch.
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The allegations against Mr. Percoco involve graft at the highest levels of the executive branch of state government.
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Nor does the pardon power turn out to provide the president with carte blanche over the executive branch.
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Meanwhile, and apparently separately, Russia probe investigators in both Congress and the executive branch dug into his activities.
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Many experts believe that the loose way Trump has organized the executive branch is a recipe for chaos.
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Executive-branch drone operators killed, openly and at will, in wars spreading in concentric circles outward from Iraq.
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In exchange, the country lacks an experienced White House chief of staff to run the executive branch competently.
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More immediately, the Trump administration's moves could put a damper on its own executive branch initiatives with Nigeria.
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Friday's opinion could have immediate impact in several other ongoing court fights between Congress and the executive branch.
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Historically presidents of both parties have cooperated with congressional investigations into malfeasance and wrongdoing within the executive branch.
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The White House last year directed all executive-branch officials not to comply with congressional subpoenas for testimony.
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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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In fact, it was already the law, albeit one never obeyed by the executive branch to this day.
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Republicans had challenged the CFPB structure on grounds that the director's position was unaccountable to the executive branch.
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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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The equation of useful compromise with defeat leads to train wrecks, whether in the Legislative or Executive Branch.
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Pompeo claimed that the officials would not be allowed to attend a deposition without Executive Branch counsel present.
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Of all entities within the executive branch, it has primary responsibility for watching foreign investment in the States.
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It formulated procedures that provided for congressional control over the proposed impoundment of funds by the executive branch.
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While Congress appropriates funds, the executive branch generally operates the process that dictates when the money is deployed.
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Congress has other means to leverage executive branch cooperation such as refusing to fund the government, Griffith said.
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The 1970s reforms gave Congress the beginnings of the capacity to bring democratic accountability to the executive branch.
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Judge Gorsuch would reject the "Chevron deference" principle, which permits executive branch administrative agencies to interpret ambiguous legislation.
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"Why shouldn't we look to the executive branch to more clearly define what the order means?" he asked.
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It also shows patience in possibly awaiting a court resolution of congressional authority to subpoena executive branch officers.
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As advocates of smaller government, Republican leaders have mostly stood by while Trump erodes the executive branch administratively.
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The executive branch wouldn't pursue a criminal contempt charge, and the House no longer uses its contempt authority.
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As a general rule, the executive branch must provide a reasoned explanation when it announces a new policy.
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Ronny Jackson -- the doctor serving the executive branch who is in line to be the next VA secretary?
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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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But Cummings also did not shy away from rigorous oversight efforts scrutinizing Trump's executive branch and top aides.
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But the executive branch, including the President, will have the final say in whether sanctions will be applies.
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United States on the fundamental constitutional question of how much authority Congress can delegate to the executive branch.
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The judiciary and the executive branch could work together to "accommodate" the president's "busy schedule," the justices said.
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The single director for-cause tenure protection defies the president's constitutional authority as head of the executive branch.
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The authors say this is more politically feasible since it could be implemented by the executive branch alone.
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Lighthizer's response was a major faux pas, given that Congress and the executive branch share authority for trade.
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"We have no power to commandeer an Executive Branch agency into conducting our due diligence," the letter said.
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The Court has emphasized repeatedly the wide berth the executive branch enjoys in order to maintain national security.
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"Executive branch officers do not work for the judiciary," he said in remarks to the conservative Heritage Foundation.
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Order and stability in the executive branch are also linked to the health of our system of government.
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He has expressed no remorse over his actions, instead seeking to strengthen his hold over the executive branch.
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The shift gives McEntee significant influence over the vetting and appointment process for scores of executive branch positions.
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Outside of the executive branch, other LGBTQ opponents or opportunists are lining up in opposition to existing law.
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A letter from a Congress member of the opposing party questioning the executive branch happens all the time.
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These days, to see something morally shocking done by our nation's executive branch is not all that surprising.
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There is nothing wrong with an executive order that merely directs the lawful operations of the executive branch.
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He is among the majority of current justices who served in the executive branch early in their career.
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The administration has been stonewalling House Democrats' investigations into the executive branch on a number of other fronts.
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Some argued that his broad constitutional authority to direct the executive branch provides a defense against such charges.
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And we settled on the theory that the executive branch always has the authority to establish prosecution priorities.
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So we need the federal government, specifically the executive branch, to appropriately resource efforts to combat domestic extremists.
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Speaking of transparency, the executive branch has taken some steps to limit public access to records and information.
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Americans rarely elect presidents who have any meaningful experience working in the executive branch of the federal government.
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That logic has historically given the executive branch a ton of leeway when it comes to immigration policy.
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GOV Act gives the executive branch six months to transition the company to be under full government control.
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Some are already illegal, and some are difficult to separate from the legitimate exercise of executive branch power.
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We cannot allow personal loyalty to Donald Trump to be the decisive factor in staffing the executive branch.
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Agencies that support congressional research and draft legislation have shed hundreds of positions over recent decades, weakening institutional capacity to draft thoroughly informed legislative proposals on complex issues, leaving an increasing number of policy decisions required for implementation to the Executive Branch, and ceding further lawmaking authority to the Executive Branch.
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In particular, our constitutional tradition has recognized that presidents must be free to receive candid advice from officers in the executive branch, and that the quality of such consultation and deliberation would be damaged if Congress or the courts could easily force the executive branch to open them to public scrutiny.
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Judges have given the executive branch broad latitude to decide where to transfer wartime detainees without judicial second-guessing.
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But that only applied to executive branch appointments, like cabinet nominees, and judicial nominations short of the Supreme Court.
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The executive branch likely enjoys the power to separate immigrant children from their families, or detain those families altogether.
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Trump's relatives could serve in other roles in Washington, as long as they're not under the executive branch umbrella.
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" In the statement Comey added: "That concerned me greatly, given the FBI's traditionally independent status in the executive branch.
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Harris's plan is seen as "creative" because it leverages power allocated to the executive branch under existing immigration law.
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Lobbyists and the executive branch tend to become more vocal to fill the void left by experienced policy minds.
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The stakes are significant for the law in America and any check by the judiciary on the executive branch.
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The Gang of 8 is a group of top congressional leaders that the executive branch briefs on classified intelligence.
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The trend of the executive branch cutting Congress out of the picture to make policy didn't begin with Trump.
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Some expressed worry about second-guessing executive branch determinations about who should be allowed to enter the United States.
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Will the next president commit to deploying all the resources of the executive branch to rein in Silicon Valley?
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Salvini has become the antagonist-in-chief for the EU's executive branch and the continent's more centrist national leaders.
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"It's become clear to me that changes are needed to strengthen the executive branch ethics program," Shaub said Thursday.
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On the business of swamp-draining, however, there is much that the executive branch could do on its own.
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Its courts hesitate to rule on issues generally regarded as the preserve of the legislature or the executive branch.
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Many Supreme Court decisions have affirmed that Congress enjoys vast investigative and oversight powers to check the executive branch.
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Constitutionally, it is part of their duty to provide oversight of an executive branch in sore need of it.
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The executive branch legitimately has dramatically more technical capacity to ask the relevant questions and consider the relevant options.
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Just last month the company's software was banned from use in both the executive branch and parts of Congress.
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And yet executive branch officials have shown they are quite capable of ignoring their own agencies' high-quality science.
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A lack of executive branch experience, in particular, has slowed presidents who did not previously serve there, she said.
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He can eliminate every single action on climate change that Obama was able to do through the executive branch.
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The act prohibits executive branch members, excluding the president, vice president and other designed officials, from making partisan statements.
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There is, again, nothing wrong with a president deciding he's had a change of heart about executive branch appointees.
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That's important to stress: Cobb's legal loyalty isn't only to Trump, but to all members of the executive branch.
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A chill spread across the executive branch this past week after a tumultuous series of events that rattled employees.
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In contrast, prosecutors and investigators, like the FBI, are part of the executive branch and serve under the president.
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Congress and the courts have no power to compel the executive branch to commence or continue particular intelligence operations.
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The executive branch has pretty broad authority over immigration policy, and it has very broad authority over foreign policy.
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Members in the House and the Senate struggle to offer alternative policies and are stonewalled by the executive branch.
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"The legislative and executive branch should put aside passivity and partisanship and finally modernize our immigration laws," Oklahoma Sen.
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For instance, the Sanders plan would place immigration courts under the judiciary system, rather than under the executive branch.
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That does not excuse Trump's traumatizing tweets or his failure to respect lines of separation within the executive branch.
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Despite warnings of damage to the executive branch, the presidency was stronger than ever after the impeachment of Clinton.
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Trump isn't the only executive-branch official who could come under greater scrutiny if the Democrats retake the committees.
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It used to be 60 before Democrats changed the rules in 2013 for executive branch and most judicial nominees.
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The Hatch Act prohibits executive branch employees from using their offices to try to sway elections or influence campaigns.
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The special counsel is the creation of the attorney general and is more firmly placed within the executive branch.
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Trump's lawyers have instructed the executive branch not to comply with House subpoenas and document requests with mixed success.
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Mr. Trump's stonewalling is a grave problem because it means there is no way to police executive branch wrongdoing.
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Zinke is prohibited from lobbying the executive branch for the time being, so his work will focus on Congress.
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That has sparked a flurry of activity in Congress to try to codify the executive branch program into law.
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January 290st Only Congress can make laws, and it is the duty of the executive branch to enforce them.
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While Congress operates independently of the executive branch, President Michel Temer's PMDB party is the biggest in the legislature.
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Sometime that spring, Mr. Obama decided that it was time for the executive branch to take over the negotiations.
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Nolan Rappaport was detailed to the House Judiciary Committee as an executive branch immigration law expert for three years.
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And they're dismissing the notion that the absence of obstruction charges may shift powers to the executive branch. Rep.
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That is more cloture votes on his executive branch nominees than the previous nine presidents at this point combined.
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But the move also upends a longstanding legal and democratic norm that the executive branch will uphold existing laws.
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All this squalid executive-branch rancor left the right free to spin the incident before the facts were known.
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Both candidates are extremely wealthy, with a web of family finances that could be influenced by executive branch decisions.
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The unfilled jobs also include key positions throughout the executive branch charged with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse.
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Democrats have since hit Trump for filling the top ranks of the executive branch with wealthy former Goldman officials.
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"They have a constitutional right and responsibility to exhibit oversight over the executive branch," Spicer said of the investigation.
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While Republicans have been scoring some points against the executive branch, it has hardly been a knockout for them.
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Nothing could be further from the truth: The president has plenary constitutional authority to fire his executive branch officers.
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This SSCI report merely confirms what the executive branch already tells us on Russian interference — that Russia did interfere.
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"It is absolutely a winning agenda," Binion, the group's director of congressional and executive branch relations, told the Examiner.
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"The intelligence community is intended to uncover the facts and provide strategic intelligence to the executive branch," Deitz said.
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