09/10/2013
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"Proper implementation and oversight of the NEA of 1976 are necessary to safeguard our democracy and protect our institutions."
"if Congress has decided that it is better not to legislate on that problem, then it is not appropriate for the President to sort of take over through emergency powers."
"But it is also true that Congress is just giving away power to the President, whether it is war powers as we were talking about, budget and impoundment control, AUMFs in specific cases, just giving it..."
"The Congress was put first in the Constitution. It is Article I. It is of the people. It is supposed to be more powerful than the President."