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."
"The perpetual state of emergency that we live in today may tempt the President to use the powers he is granted by the National Emergencies Act to circumvent the will of Congress."
"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."