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Cord Byrd: “Under the Constitution, only the Congress has the power to enact laws, and only the Congress can appropriate moneys. If…”

On the recordJanuary 18, 1995
Under the Constitution, only the Congress has the power to enact laws, and only the Congress can appropriate moneys. If there is a need to rescind or to repeal or to modify, why does the legislative branch not do that? Why turn that over to some unelected bureaucrat-- and this is no disparagement of bureaucrats, because we have to have them--why turn that over to an unelected bureaucrat, who is given no power under the Constitution? I am one who believes that the Congress cannot give away power that is vested in the Congress, and the Congress only, by the Constitution.
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Cord Byrd
Florida
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Discussing the constitutional powers of Congress regarding lawmaking and appropriations.

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