Posted on 03/02/2015 5:28:10 AM PST by mac_truck
I'm a minority of one here. I'm not real thrilled about a political leader in a campaign back home campaigning in the HOR. Deciding who can and cannot speak could influence elections.
The president can receive foreign ambassadors and ministers. It doesn’t say the Congress can’t have a talk with a foreign head of state. Reuters is blowing smoke.
Obama WAS told about Bibi’s visit.
And an invite is NOT unconstitutional.
Period. Full stop. End of story.
Reuters, as a liberal publication, believes the words mean what Reuters says they mean because Reuters says it. That is a liberal approach to language. Words mean whatever a liberal thinks they should mean at a particular moment.
From section 2, article 3(same section)
he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
OH, and it’s stupid to take out of context the words in the constitution.
he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers
What? Like he’s the only one?
When shall he not receive Ambassadors or other public Ministers? When it’s convenient/Not convenient?
Doesn’t say “He alone” or any form thereof, so why isn’t any dignitary able to speak before the house, if the Speaker allows it?
It is? Where?
Does Boehner have to ask the President if he can recess the House, too?
-PJ
It’s prohibited to the STATES to make pacts with foreign governments, but nothing says Congress cannot invite a foreign speaker.
Would we be hearing any of this if Boehner had invited Amanutjob to speak? (yes, it a rhetorical question)
February 18, 1943
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek of China Addressed the House of Representatives.
As a goodwill ambassador for China, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek’s tour of the United States included a House reception.
On this date, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek of China (wife of the Nationalist political and military leader Chiang Kai-Shek) addressed the House of Representatives. In her speech, she applauded American efforts in the Pacific theater. She also recounted the friendship between the U.S. and China: “We in China, like you, want a better world, not for ourselves alone, but for all mankind, and we must have it.” Chiang’s visit also was meant to convey appreciation for the American Lend-Lease program, which supplied war materials to sustain the Chinese resistance effort.
Madame Chiang holds the distinction of being the only female dignitary to address a House Reception—a common practice in the early part of the 20th century when foreign leaders addressed the House separately from the Senate. The practice tapered off in the latter half of the century, and 1977 marked the last foreign leader invited to a House Reception.
Has this twit written anything about the administration’s “grudge match” with the Constitution and this country as it was founded? Hey, Liz, the madame is calling for another client in waiting.
Thank you...
The Marquis de Lafayette, the French general and Revolutionary War hero, was the first foreign dignitary to address the House of Representatives. Lafayette delivered a speech before a meeting in the House Chamber on December 10, 1824.
The first non-head of state to address a Joint Meeting of Congress was Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa in 1989. Nelson Mandela, then Deputy President of the African National Congress addressed a Joint Session in 1990.
Including Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine, who addressed a Joint Meeting of Congress on 18 September 2014, there have been 114 Joint Meeting addresses delivered by foreign leaders and dignitaries extending back to King David Kalakaua of Hawaii in 1874.
Including Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine, 110 leaders or dignitaries have addressed Joint Meetings of Congress. (Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, and Yitzak Rabin have addressed Congress multiple times.)
Eleven (11) monarchs or royalty have addressed Joint Meetings of Congress
Twelve (12) women have addressed Joint Meetings of Congress. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was the first (3 April 1952). Others who followed include: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (21 April 1982), UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (20 February 1985), Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino (18 September 1986), Prime Minister of Pakistan (7 June 1989), Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (16 April 1991), Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (16 May 1991), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia (15 March 2006), Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia (7 June 2006), Dr. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (3 November 2009), Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia (9 March 2011), and Park Geun Hye, President of the Republic of Korea (8 May 2013).
Two different families have had multiple generations of descendents address the Congress. Both Queen Juliana (1952), and her daughter Queen Beatrix (1982) have addressed Joint Sessions. Queen Wilhelmina (Juliana’s mother and Beatrix’s grandmother) addressed the Senate with the House as an invited guest in 1942. Both King Hussein I (1994) and King Hussein II (2007) have addressed Joint Sessions.
The years in which the greatest number of foreign leaders or dignitaries have addressed Joint Meetings of Congress: 1976 (5), 1985 (5), 1954 (4), 1959 (4), 1960 (4), 1989 (4), and 1994 (4).
France and Great Britain have the distinction of sending the most leaders or dignitaries to deliver joint meeting addresses before Congress, with eight Joint Meeting addresses by heads of state or dignitaries a piece. In descending order other countries leading the list of Joint Meeting addresses include: Israel (7), Mexico (7), Italy (6), Ireland (6), the Republic of Korea (6), Germany, including West Germany and unified Germany (5), India (4), Canada (3), Argentina (3), Australia (3), and the Philippines (3).
Winston Churchill made more addresses to Congress than any other individual. He addressed Joint Meetings in 1941, 1943, and 1952. Nelson Mandela of South Africa has addressed Congress twice, in 1990 and 1994. Yitzak Rabin of Israel also addressed Joint Meetings of Congress on two occasions, in 1976 and 1994.
Source for my balderdash claims?
Why, the U.S. House of Representatives web site:
http://history.house.gov/Institution/Foreign-Leaders/Fast-Facts/
Ain’t history fun?
For Mark Levine’s reading material this afternoon...
OK, it says he “shall receive Ambassadors and other public ministers”. But Zero refuses to receive Bibi, so which side is ignoring the Consitution?
That was kind-of my point.
As others have stated, this isn’t some revolutionary new concept, it has been done before numerous times (an ambassador/dignitary addressing the house of reps). The author attempts to rewrite history and the constitution in a lame attempt to convince intellectually lazy people that his is the only opinion that matters on the subject.
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