Word: circumventions
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Clinton will hit the road again, trying to concentrate more on selling his program and less on everything else. Senior officials have discussed ways to nudge the President to the right in the coming weeks, such as by nominating a moderate Supreme Court Justice, dropping the controversial and probably doomed...
For all its practical failings, however, the most compelling problem with Section 158 is a philosophical one--and that is the way it was enacted. The bill that Reagan signed in 1984 did not itself raise the drinking age. It compelled the states, with whom the prerogative of setting the...
The compromise proposed on Sunday met strong and immediate rejection. The nine-point plan had offered a sop to the Congress, later described as an attempted "bribe," by letting them keep their privileges and salaries until their term ends in 1995. The Deputies condemned the plan as a cynical attempt...
As Mobutu never tires of saying, whenever the U.S. needed a favor, he was usually delighted to oblige. He turned over facilities to the CIA in support of Jonas Savimbi, an American client in the still festering Angolan civil war, and helped train forces loyal to Hissene Habre, the West...
There is nothing remotely decent about ridiculing the constitutional separation of powers by asserting that when Congress exercises its power to appropriate funds the executive branch can circumvent congressional will and chalk it all up to "policy differences."