Issue Position: Reform Congress/ Follow the Constitution

Issue Position

Congress itself needs to be more accountable to the people and needs to take back powers usurped by the executive branch. "Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution begins with "All legislative powers, herein granted, shall be vested in a Congress of the United States…" Congress simply cannot allow the President to exercise law-making powers vested solely in the legislative branch by the United States Constitution. Congress, and hence the federal government, is vested only with enumerated powers and one of the reasons we face so many problems is that the federal government has involved itself in matters reserved by our Constitution to the states or the people themselves. On budgetary matters, one reason spending has raged out of control is that Congress has stopped enacting the separate appropriations bills for the departments of government and has passed continuing resolutions funding all of government. These have been passed late in the congressional session under time pressures that have allowed the President to get whatever funding he wants. Congress must return to regular order and stop rolling over for the President.

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