President and Executive Branch

• Decision of 1789
• Myers v. US
• Humphrey's Executor v. US

Saturday Night Massacre:

Signing Statements

Executive Orders and some recent examples

The Antiquities Act

Oversight:

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee:

• GAO and CBO


• Legislative Veto and the Presentation Clause (Art I, sec. 7, clause 3): Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.