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To: lawdog; Pukin Dog
The question is not can Congress challenge but will they ?

No offense to Pukin Dog, but this is anything but "over". Congress can do practically anything it wants if it has the votes to override a veto. A good example of this would be how the reconstruction era congress totally took Andrew Johnson to the woodshed.

If congress wanted to, it would disovled CIFUS and disolve all of the port leases. The president couldn't do anything about and neither could the SCOTUS.

BTW, contray to what Pukin Dog alledges, Congress most certianly does have foreign policy power - the approval of treaties is a glaring example.

2,106 posted on 02/21/2006 8:29:08 PM PST by JeffAtlanta
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To: JeffAtlanta
BTW, contray to what Pukin Dog alledges, Congress most certianly does have foreign policy power - the approval of treaties is a glaring example.

Power of the purse, too.

2,110 posted on 02/21/2006 8:30:41 PM PST by EternalVigilance (www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: JeffAtlanta; lawdog; Pukin Dog
BTW, contray to what Pukin Dog alledges, Congress most certianly does have foreign policy power - the approval of treaties is a glaring example.

They could abolish the Presidency itself, as long as they could get the ammendment approved, on the other hand the President could only abolish the Congress with force.

2,203 posted on 02/21/2006 9:07:20 PM PST by itsahoot (Any country that does not control its borders, is not a country. Ronald Reagan)
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