Congress and the Executive II

More on Vetoes.  See Newt Gingrich, Lessons Learned the Hard Way (1998):

We had not only failed to take into account the ability of the Senate to delay us and obstruct us, but we had much too cavalierly underrated the power of the President, even a President who had lost his legislative majority and was in a certain amount of trouble for other reasons. I am speaking of the power of the veto. Even if you pass something through both the House and the Senate, there is that presidential pen. How could we have forgotten that? For me especially it was inexcusable, because when I was Republican whip during the Bush Administration one of my duties had been precisely to help sustain presidential vetoes.

1.  Item Veto (Davidson 297)




2.  Legislative veto and the Congressional Review Act (more after the break)

Unilateral Power:  Executive Actions

Forms of executive action

• Executive orders
• Presidential proclamations
• Presidential memoranda
• Agency memoranda (DACA)

But what one administration does unilaterally, another administration can undo unilaterally

• Reversal of DACA

Courts can also undo actions.  The case of DAPA:US v. Texas\

They can also undo the  undoing: The case of DACA.

Signing statements