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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 08:50 AM Jun 2019

Grassley: 'Congress has delegated too much authority to the president'

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/448021-grassley-congress-has-delegated-too-much-authority-to-the-president

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sounded off on President Trump's use of executive authority on tariff action on Tuesday, accusing Congress of improperly giving up its power to the White House.

During a call with reporters first reported by Politico, the Iowa senator and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said tariff actions should be decided by elected lawmakers in Congress rather than by the president's fiat.

"It adds up to something pretty simple: Congress has delegated too much authority to the president of the United States," he said, according to Politico.

"There’s absolutely no constitutional crisis that this president or any other president has created," Grassley reportedly continued. "The constitutional crisis comes from the elected representatives of the people over the last 80 years making a dictator out of the presidency."

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Are you fucking kidding me, Chuck, you doddering dipshit??
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Grassley: 'Congress has delegated too much authority to the president' (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jun 2019 OP
So Chucky complains, but does nothing. Eyeball_Kid Jun 2019 #1
Sounds like his constituents are getting restless Cirque du So-What Jun 2019 #2
Reframe below Iliyah Jun 2019 #3
"But I'm not going to do anything about it" StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #4
wait, the water carrier for the president is now complaining that the president has too much water? Javaman Jun 2019 #5
He's right zipplewrath Jun 2019 #6
Republicans will be HUGE fans of congressional oversight if Trump loses in 2020. DetlefK Jun 2019 #7
That's rich coming from a republican who had spent his entire career Volaris Jun 2019 #8

Cirque du So-What

(25,940 posts)
2. Sounds like his constituents are getting restless
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 08:56 AM
Jun 2019

so he's gotta sound all rebellious in this moment. He'll return to sycophantic rhetoric once this crisis passes...assuming it does, that is. If things worsen, then Grassley's ass may well be grass.

Javaman

(62,530 posts)
5. wait, the water carrier for the president is now complaining that the president has too much water?
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 08:57 AM
Jun 2019

fuck off grassley, you worthless piece of shit.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
6. He's right
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 08:59 AM
Jun 2019

Not that he'd do anything about it. It'll take GOP congress critters choosing to override vetos in order to change anything, and right now they won't do that. Maybe if we get a democratic president and a cooperative democratic party, we can clean this mess up.

Volaris

(10,271 posts)
8. That's rich coming from a republican who had spent his entire career
Wed Jun 12, 2019, 11:03 AM
Jun 2019

Believing in the theroy of the unitary executive...maybe he's anticipating another democratic president, and is trying to get ahead of the curve.

Grassley is a complicit asshole.

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