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CHECKS AND BALANCES UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION? WHAT CHECKS AND BALANCES? (June 2, 2006) As reported by the Boston Globe: Two senior Democratic House members yesterday demanded that President Bush withdraw his assertion that he can ignore portions of the USA Patriot Act calling on him to provide periodic reports to Congress on how new law-enforcement tactics are being used.
Representatives Jane Harman of California and John
Conyers of Michigan -- the ranking Democrats on the Intelligence and Judiciary
Committees, respectively -- sent a
letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
asking that Bush follow the law. Of course, "his understanding of the law," here, as in many other instances, has been used to simply and blatantly disregard the law. And, of course, the phrase, "executive branch operations," is, of course, a catch all meaning, "if we decide not to share it." In other words, a law gets passed because oversight provisions are put in, and then the administration simply ignores those oversight provisions. A call to Conyers' office confirmed that as of today, over two months later, there has been no response, directly, or indirectly, to this request that the executive branch abide by the law, as well as abide by our Constitution, that states, clearly and unambiguously, at Article I, Section I, that "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." Blatantly changing a law on the specious pretense of "interpretaton" is legislating, in direct contravention of the Will of Congress (and, as Congress serves as our representatives, in contravention with the represented will of the American people), and of the Constitution.
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