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Another question: If the Constitution's system of checks and balances demands this kind of congressional surveillance of the presidency, why do the hearings so often lose their way in labyrinthine detail? Why don't Congressmen examine larger social and moral and political issues? The dense tangle of the Iran-contra affair, with its elaborate deceits and boxes within boxes, is, in the light of day, fairly simple. It involves two issues...
...that enables submarines to move more quietly underwater and thus escape detection. Under the terms of the Senate ban, which was passed as an amendment to a pending omnibus trade bill, the Federal Government is required to seek financial compensation from Toshiba and Kongsberg for the technology leak. Some Congressmen estimate that it could cost the U.S. up to $30 billion to bolster its defenses in the wake of the caper...
Should Aquino not issue the Executive Order on CARP, the chances for comprehensive agrarian reform seem dim. The majority of newly elected congressmen are landowners themselves, backed by the landowning class. As such they stand even less to gain from agrarian reform than does Aquino herself...
...displayed powerful individual differences in both philosophy and temperament, they showed important similarities too. Of the 55 delegates from twelve states (Rhode Island refused to participate), more than half were lawyers and eight were judges; another quarter were large landowners. All of them had held public office, 42 as Congressmen and seven as Governors. And they were young. Madison, for example, was 36; Hamilton was 32. There were no women, of course, not to mention blacks or Indians. The new Republic that these men were to create was a republic in which slavery was still widely accepted and in which...
...President sends U.S. military forces into an area where they come under enemy fire. Congressmen denounce him for dragging the nation into battle "unconstitutionally." But it is too late; war has begun, and Congress has no choice except to let it continue...