Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the… — Tom Rice Copy Share Image
As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate. — Lincoln Chafee Copy Share Image
Love or hate the outcome of what Trump has decided to do, keeping or scrapping DACA is outside of his authority as… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
“if something happened and he wasn’t present, he didn’t care about it and barely recognized it. His response then was often just… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I do think it's true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“As a dad, you are Vice President. You are part of the Executive Branch of the family, but you are the partner… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“In Maya’s group, the “executive branch,” everyone is talking at once. Maya hangs back. Samantha, tall and plump in a purple T-shirt,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I have the documents. Documents, proof, evidence, photograph, signature. One day you raise your right hand and you are American. They give… — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Copy Share Image
Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
“The members of the committee were aware of the programmes concerned, having been briefed on them in classified sessions. The question was,… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
“Over a two-year period, the Obama administration delayed the implementation of the Affordable Care Act twenty-eight times, ostensibly to give employers time… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
“Finally, the Framers stressed that the impeachment remedy was a vital congressional check on the executive branch as a whole, not just… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use… — John Engler Copy Share Image
I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
“The year 2020 will mark the end of the U.S. presidency and the executive branch of the government. Let’s just say the… — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain… — Harriet Miers Copy Share Image
One of my chief criticisms of U.S. international policy is that Congress has largely abdicated its foreign policy-making responsibilities to the executive… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
I've put forth measures that would actually eliminate some of the executive branch power. You know, philosophically, that's where I am. — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use… — John Engler Copy Share Image
To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications,… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they… — Nina Totenberg Copy Share Image
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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