President and Congress I

 For Wednesday:

• Ted Gittinger and Allen Fisher, "LBJ Champions the Civil Rights Act," Prologue (Summer 2004), https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/summer/civil-rights-act 

Writing a research paper  

• Shortcut to finding academic literature: https://consensus.app/
• Do not believe something just because you see it online.  Especially with data, trace back to the original source.  An example.
• The same goes with quotations and paraphrases.  Stuff presidents never said.
• One-stop shopping for presidential material here: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
• Current transcripts:  https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/search/
• Movies: IMDB AND script links
• Writing tips

Today, the formal powers and institutional advantages.  On Wed, legsislative bargaining and case studies.

One big advantage:  one voice v.535 voices.

Information asymmetry (Edwards 360-361).

In January 2020, Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah heavily criticized a Trump administration briefing on the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

Congressional support agencies have not kept up

Article II duties.

Article I powers: Bills and agenda-setting

Vetoes.  

Statements of Administration Policy (Trump examples)

1— Strongly Support Passage
2— Support Passage
3— Do not Object to Passage
4— No Position on Passage
5— Oppose
6— Strongly Oppose
7— Secretary’s Veto Threat (single and multiple agency)
8— Senior Advisor’s Veto Threat
9— Presidential Veto Threat (285-286) and other warnings.

Item Veto (287): Supreme Court struck it down in Clinton v. City of New York.

Signing statements (Edward 397-98)

• A de facto item veto?
• As a candidate, Obama opposed signing statements  -- but as president, he issued them
• Trump First Term examples

Parties and Congress (Edwards 362-75)

From WP 11/2/24