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FBaggins

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4. Then you misunderstand the "Senate's Constitutional Power"

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 02:07 PM

Jan 2014

The Executive branch also has Constitutional Power. The two often butt heads (more often then the average observer ever realizes).

There's a difference between "oversight" and "intervention". Congress does not have intervention authority - though they often act as though they do.

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Senator (Boxer) Threatens to Sue (NRC) Over Withheld Documents [View all] FBaggins Jan 2014 OP

I'm very disappointed in Allison Macfarlane for lying to Barbara Boxer. bananas Jan 2014 #1

You assume that it isn't Boxer that's twisting the truth. FBaggins Jan 2014 #2

Yes, they ooze corruption. kristopher Jan 2014 #6

Please provide a counter-example FBaggins Jan 2014 #10

I support Boxer's move to force the NRC to comply withe the Senate's Constitutional Power. Agnosticsherbet Jan 2014 #3

Then you misunderstand the "Senate's Constitutional Power" FBaggins Jan 2014 #4

Allowing the public to know how dangerous, substandard parts came to be used Agnosticsherbet Jan 2014 #5

Sorry.. no. FBaggins Jan 2014 #7

The only interest you have is trying to whitewash the nuclear industry kristopher Jan 2014 #8

That's what your irrational bias says... sure. FBaggins Jan 2014 #9

The only interest you have is trying to whitewash the nuclear industry kristopher Jan 2014 #11

The use of substandard parts was an act of fraud that has caused economic damage Agnosticsherbet Jan 2014 #12