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Issue Position: Article I Project

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By: Mike Lee
By: Mike Lee
Date: Jan. 1, 2016
Issues: Executive Branch Government Operations Judicial Branch Legislative Branch

The Case for Congressional Empowerment

The authors of the Constitution intended Congress to be first among the federal government's three co-equal branches. Endowed with the power to legislate, tax, spend, and oversee the weaker Executive and Judicial branches -- while simultaneously held to tighter public accountability -- Congress was meant to be the driving force in federal policymaking.


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