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The Twelfth Amendment gives Congress the power to choose the president or the vice president if no one receives a majority of Electoral College votes. The Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth Amendments (1870) gave Congress authority to enact legislation to enforce rights of all citizens regardless of race, including voting ...
Republican President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to reshape U.S. policy with a blizzard of executive orders within hours of taking office next week. Here is a look at what the president can and ...
On his first day in office as 47th president, Donald Trump issued executive orders which rescinded many of the previous administration's executive actions, withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization and Paris Agreement, [530] rolled back federal recognition of gender identity, [531] founded the Department of Government Efficiency ...
Vice President-elect JD Vance waves as he attends a joint session of Congress to certify Donald Trump's election, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. January 6, 2025.
February 7, 2017: Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. This was the first time in United States history that a cabinet confirmation was tied in the Senate and required a tie-breaking vote. [10] [11] February 28, 2017: President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress.
President-elect Donald Trump has said he might install his picks for top administration posts without first winning approval in the U.S. Senate. This would erode the power of Congress and remove a ...
The enumerated powers (also called expressed powers, explicit powers or delegated powers) of the United States Congress are the powers granted to the federal government of the United States by the United States Constitution. Most of these powers are listed in Article I, Section 8.
His expected pardons would follow a last-minute decision by President Biden to flex the same power on his way out of the White House by pardoning members of Congress and their staffers who had ...