How about NAFTA to send jobs to Mexico!! "Fair" Trade Agreement with China to reduce duty taxes and ship more jobs to China. "Fair" Trade Agreement with Vietnam to also increase trading and NOW send MORE jobs to Vietnam. Or, how about the "Gun Control" act to give criminals full rights to guns but take them out of law-abiding citizens.
The major function of the US Congress is to make laws. Laws are passed by both houses of the Congress and sent to the President for signature.
As President, Johnson "passed" no laws, although he did sign several into law after Congress forwarded them to him.
passed only with major changes from his own party
No president can pass any laws. Coolidge stepped when Harding died and pretty much followed Harding's philosophy of government. Laws were passed by Congress as usual.
Congress can impeach the President if he commits a major crime. Congress can override the President's vetoes and Congress must approve of the President's nominations to federal positions, like federal judges.
What are the Major Statutes What are the Major Statutes
Soft money
The three major messages that the president sends out to the congress are the state of union, the economic reports and the budget message. He sends these messages out using his message power.
The President has broad constitutional power to take military action in response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Congress has acknowledged this inherent executive power in both the War Powers Resolution and the Joint Resolution passed by Congress on September 14, 2001.
FDR passed 15 major bills.
He must have held one major public office.
One of the major actions Thomas Jefferson took after becoming president was to repeal the Alien and Sedition Acts. These were a series of controversial laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress to restrict immigration and limit criticism of the government. Jefferson believed these acts were unconstitutional and infringed upon the rights of American citizens.