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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 ...
President-elect Donald Trump spent the past two years on the campaign trail making more than a dozen promises about what he would enact on his first day in office. Trump’s day-one plans are wide ...
A Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (about the 2017 Shayrat missile strike) April 8, 2017 TBA TBA TBA [33] 15: A Letter from the President to the President of the Senate (about the accession of Montenegro to NATO) April 11, 2017 TBA TBA TBA [34] 16
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]
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 ...
In the case of the former, the president retains the power to veto such a decision; however, Congress may override a veto with a two-thirds majority to end an executive order. It has been argued that a congressional override of an executive order is a nearly impossible event, because of the supermajority vote required, and the fact that such a ...
After he reclaims this power, Trump said, “I will then use the president’s long recognized impoundment power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings.” There will be ...