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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 ...
The customary method by which agencies of the United States government are created, abolished, consolidated, or divided is through an act of Congress. [2] The presidential reorganization authority essentially delegates these powers to the president for a defined period of time, permitting the President to take those actions by decree. [3]
The 117th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2021, and ended on January 3, 2023, enacted 362 public laws and 3 private laws. [1] [2] Donald Trump, who was the incumbent president for the Congress's first seventeen days, did not enact any laws before his presidential term expired.
The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse. But the president is in charge of executing the law. Impoundment occurs when Congress appropriates money that the president then declines to ...
The first public law enacted in the 115th Congress (Pub. L. 115–1 (text)) was the last law signed by President Barack Obama, and he signed it into law in the Capitol in the last hour of his presidency on January 20, 2017, shortly before the inauguration of his successor. [1]
Much of the president’s ability to impact economic policy depends on approval from Congress. Nonetheless, when Trump is inaugurated on January 20, he will be on the hook to make good on his ...
On Jan. 13, 2021, then-President Trump was impeached for “incitement of insurrection.” At the trial in the Senate, seven Republicans joined all Democrats to provide a majority for conviction ...
Establishing the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis: March 29, 2017 April 3, 2017 82 FR 16283 2017-06716 [70] [71] 21 13785: Establishing the Enhanced Collection and Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing Duties and Violations of Trade and Customs Laws March 31, 2017 April 5, 2017 82 FR 16719 2017-06967