CMC Congress Course: Congress and the Executive II

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I shall post videos, graphs, news stories, and other material there. We shall use some of this material in class, and you may review the rest at your convenience. You will all receive invitations to post to the blog. (Please let me know if you do not get such an invitation.) I encourage you to use the blog in these ways:

To post questions or comments about the readings before we discuss them in class;
To follow up on class discussions with additional comments or questions.
To post relevant news items or videos.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Congress and the Executive II

Nominations and Removals

PAS and non-PAS
The Decision of 1789 -- president does not need approval for firings
Could Trump order the firing of Mueller? (Yep) Precedent: The Saturday Night Massacre
A key exception: Independent regulatory commissions: Humphrey's Executor v. US
Remember: INDEPENDENT AGENCIES AND INDEPENDENT REGULATORY COMMISSIONS ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

Legislative Controls

Inspectors General (POTUS WAS DISPLEASED!)
Congress "organizes" the executive:
"Drug Czar"
The "organization" of DHS.
DNI and the intelligence community

Regulation

Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations
Net Neutrality, for example
The process (shorter form in Davidson 334):

Federal Register pages by decade:

Congressional Review Act (Thurber, pp. 106-16)

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