Stephanie
Diamond Member
- Jul 11, 2004
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Every American citizen should get behind this. NO MORE thugs and wannabe DICKtators running the show like Obama. don't think the he-man old Hillary doesn't have plans of acting the why he has. We need to Reign in these out of control government agencies like the EPA, IRS, BLM, etc. wake the hell up for a change and call, write and email your lazy ass CongressCritters
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By Lauretta Brown | February 3, 2016 | 7:05 PM EST
(CNSNews.com) – Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) launched a new initiative in Congress Wednesday, described as a “network of House and Senate conservatives working together on a new agenda of government reform” that “focuses on congressional rehabilitation,” based on the original powers vested in Congress by Article 1 of the Constitution.
“The premise of the Article 1 Project is very simple,” Lee said at an event at the Kirby Center in D.C. “Congressional acquiescence is at the very heart of the problems that we face in Washington.”
Lee said the Constitution’s authors made Congress “the most powerful of the federal government’s three co-equal branches.”
“Congress was designed both as the most powerful and as the most accountable to the people,” he said. “Congress has handed many of its constitutional responsibilities over to the executive branch.”
As a result, “increasingly harmful federal laws are increasingly written by people who never stand for election, by a process as contrary as those provided for in the Constitution and indeed with the explicit purpose of excluding the American people from their government and shielding policymakers from popular accountability.”
“Congress has recast itself as the back seat driver in American politics,” Lee said. “Today the vast majority of federal laws, upwards of 95 percent, are passed not by the House and Senate and signed by the president but instead they’re imposed unilaterally by unelected executive branch bureaucrats.”
“At the same time Congress’ budget process is almost entirely broken down,” he added.
all of it at the site:
Sen. Lee Launches ‘Constitutional Rehabilitation’ Project: ‘Congress Has Recast Itself as the Back Seat Driver in American Politics’
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By Lauretta Brown | February 3, 2016 | 7:05 PM EST
(CNSNews.com) – Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) launched a new initiative in Congress Wednesday, described as a “network of House and Senate conservatives working together on a new agenda of government reform” that “focuses on congressional rehabilitation,” based on the original powers vested in Congress by Article 1 of the Constitution.
“The premise of the Article 1 Project is very simple,” Lee said at an event at the Kirby Center in D.C. “Congressional acquiescence is at the very heart of the problems that we face in Washington.”
Lee said the Constitution’s authors made Congress “the most powerful of the federal government’s three co-equal branches.”
“Congress was designed both as the most powerful and as the most accountable to the people,” he said. “Congress has handed many of its constitutional responsibilities over to the executive branch.”
As a result, “increasingly harmful federal laws are increasingly written by people who never stand for election, by a process as contrary as those provided for in the Constitution and indeed with the explicit purpose of excluding the American people from their government and shielding policymakers from popular accountability.”
“Congress has recast itself as the back seat driver in American politics,” Lee said. “Today the vast majority of federal laws, upwards of 95 percent, are passed not by the House and Senate and signed by the president but instead they’re imposed unilaterally by unelected executive branch bureaucrats.”
“At the same time Congress’ budget process is almost entirely broken down,” he added.
all of it at the site:
Sen. Lee Launches ‘Constitutional Rehabilitation’ Project: ‘Congress Has Recast Itself as the Back Seat Driver in American Politics’
