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In reply to the discussion: The Acting Director of National Intelligence should not be permitted to defy a subpoena... [View all]FBaggins
(26,721 posts)30. Apologies if I oversimplified it. That isn't what I meant
It isn't that Congress appropriates and then the executive does whatever it wants. Congress can set all kinds of requirements. They just can't insert themselves into the ongoing management. If they created a new federal gun registration system (we're ignoring other constitutional issues here), they could say that the fee could be waived based on need... but the agency involved (ATF?) would set up the enacting regulations a create a fee waiver process. Congress could appropriate more or fewer funds to make the program work... but they couldn't write a law that said "all fee waivers must be approved by staff on the Senate Security Committee"
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The Acting Director of National Intelligence should not be permitted to defy a subpoena... [View all]
kentuck
Sep 2019
OP
He is violating a statute passed by the Congress and signed by a President...
Thomas Hurt
Sep 2019
#6
On the other hand Congress does have the power of the purse that they can wield and withhold
cstanleytech
Sep 2019
#12
Could the House withhold salary funds for 'acting' directors until they are confirmed
Captain Zero
Sep 2019
#28
Congress can only appropriate money... it can't manage the spending of it directly.
FBaggins
Sep 2019
#24
They could however attache a warning to the money that if its used for x or x instead that
cstanleytech
Sep 2019
#31
Either way they do have the ability to apply pressure with the power of the purse but it
cstanleytech
Sep 2019
#33
He has because they have let him. I am sure there is a politician that can figure out the answer
Maraya1969
Sep 2019
#5
No! Because damn it I am so sick of Democrats saying, "This won't work" "You can't do that"
Maraya1969
Sep 2019
#29