-
- WASHINGTON, DC - This
week, a subcommittee of the House of
- Representatives will hold a hearing on legislation introduced
by Rep.
- Ron Paul (R, TX) that would restrict the power of presidents
to
- legislate by Executive Order.
-
- The Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Commerce
and
- Administrative Law will hold the hearing on Thursday,
October 28, 1999,
- in room B-353 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The
legislation is
- HR 2655, the Separation of Powers Restoration Act. Judiciary
Committee
- Chairman Henry Hyde (R, IL) issued the formal invitation
for Rep. Paul
- to testify on behalf of the legislation.
-
- "The American public has grown increasingly weary
of the use of
- Executive Orders, as presidents have used them to bypass
Congress and
- legislate from the Oval Office," said Rep. Paul.
"Presidents must be
- able to direct their employees, but this power must be
closely confined
- by the laws which they are constitutionally and legislatively
empowered
- to execute."
-
- Former Clinton Advisor Paul Begala was quoted in the
New York Times on
- July 5, 1998, as saying of Executive Orders, "Stroke
of the pen. Law of
- the Land. Kinda cool." But the US Constitution does
not give presidents
- this power, said Rep. Paul. "I'm pleased the Committee
has decided to
- hold hearings on this important issue which affects every
American."
-
- HR 2655 would limit the scope of the Executive Orders
a president can
- issue to only directing his staff and executive branch
employees in
- carrying out authorized activities.
-
- It would also give legal standing to Members of Congress
and average
- citizens to bring court cases against an administration
if an Executive
- Order deprives them of their rights or harms them economically.
-
- It also repeals the 1973 War Powers Resolution, returning
exclusive
- authority to Congress to declare national emergencies,
while repealing
- all "national emergencies" currently on the
books -- most dating from
- the late 1970s and early 1980s. The legislation currently
has nine
- cosponsors, including Don Young (R, AK), chairman of
the Committee on
- Resources.
-
- _________
-
- If you support this measure, take just a moment to email
your House members
- and demand they support HR 2655.
-
- Below are the email addresses of 96 of 100 Senators.
For email addresses of
- House members, go to: http://www.in-search-of.org
-
-
- Sen._Murkowski@12022245301.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Stevens@12022242354.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Sessions@12022243149.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Shelby@12022243416.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Lincoln@12022246435.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Hutchinson@12022283973.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Kyl@12022281239.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._McCain@12022282862.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Boxer@14159566701.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Feinstein@12022283954.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Campbell@12022241933.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Allard@12022246471.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Dodd@12022241083.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Lieberman@12022249750.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Biden@12022240139.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Graham@12022242237.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Mack@12022248022.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Cleland@12022240072.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Coverdell@12022283783.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Akaka@12022242126.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Inouye@12022246747.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Harkin@12022249369.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Grassley@12022246020.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Craig@12022281067.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Crapo@12022245893.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Fitzgerald@12022285786.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Durbin@12022280400.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Bayh@12022284137.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Lugar@12022280360.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Brownback@12022281265.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Roberts@12022243514.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Bunning@12022240046.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._McConnell@12022242499.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Breaux@12022282577.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Landrieu@12022249735.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Kennedy@12022242417.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Kerry@12022248525.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Mikulski@12022248858.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Sarbanes@12022241651.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Snowe@12022241946.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Collins@12022242693.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Levin@12022241388.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Abraham@12022248834.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Wellstone@12022248438.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Grams@12022280956.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Bond@12022248149.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Ashcroft@12022280998.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Cochran@12022249450.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Lott@12022242262.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Burns@12022248594.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Edwards@12022247406.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Helms@12022247588.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Conrad@12022247776.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Dorgan@12022241193.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Hagel@12022245213.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Kerrey@12022247645.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Gregg@12022244952.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Smith@12022241353.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Torricelli@12022248567.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Lautenberg@12022249707.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Bingaman@12022242852.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Domenici@12022247371.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Bryan@12022241867.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Reid@12022247327.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Daniel@12022280406.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Schumer@12022245871.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Voinovich@12022247983.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._DeWine@12022246519.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Inhofe@12022280380.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Nickles@12022246008.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Smith@12022283997.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Wyden@12022282717.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Santorum@12022280604.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Specter@12022281229 .iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Reed@12022244680.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Hollings@12022244293.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Thurmond@12022241300.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Daschle@12022242047.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Johnson@12022285765.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Thompson@12022283679.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Frist@12022281264.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Hutchison@12022240776.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Gramm@12022282856.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Bennett@12022244908.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Hatch@12022246331.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Robb@12022248689.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Warner@12022246295.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Jeffords@12022280338.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Murray@12022240238.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Gorton@12022249393.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Feingold@12022242725.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Kohl@12022249787.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Byrd@12022280002.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Rockefeller@12022247665.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Enzi@12022280359.iddd.tpc.int
- Sen._Thomas@12022241724.iddd.tpc.int
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