On the recordOctober 31, 1997
In a manner, this is just a continuation of the siphoning off of the legislative powers, as we saw in the Line-Item Veto Act. It was siphoned away. As a matter of fact, we just gave legislative power to the President. Aside from that subject, that is what is being done here. We are being asked to give up the people's power under the Constitution to legislate, to amend, and to debate. In other words, we are just to buy a pig in a poke and are not even supposed to look inside the poke --just rubberstamp whatever the administration sends up here.
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