2007-03-21 08:03:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No because they will have to override a presidential veto to get some of the power back that the republicans gave to the president.
2007-03-21 08:07:51 · answer #1 · answered by beren 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I believe that the way things are going right now, Congress will become even weaker. I don't want to get too partisan here, but that's almost impossible. The weakening might happen because of many reasons. The key reasons being:
This whole ordeal about the firing of eight attorneys. This isn't even news, the president has the power to fire attorneys whenever he wants to for any reason. Plus, it's been confirmed that they've been fired for incompetence.
Second, the increasing influence unions and lobbyists have on Congress. It's getting to the point where Congress has forgotten who they're supposed to be serving. They're our servants, we pay them, and they listen to us, not to a small group of "special interest" lobbyists.
Hopefully we can fix this problem before it gets so far out of control that nothing short of a revolution will stop it.
2007-03-21 08:15:23 · answer #2 · answered by Mike 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What power would they need to "grab back" from the executive branch? What have they lost?
At any rate, I hope they DON'T become more powerful at all; quite to the contrary, I hope all three branches LOSE a lot of power within the next two years. Government influence over our lives has expanded far too much within the past century; we are nowhere near today the small, weak government the Founders imagined.
2007-03-21 09:05:18 · answer #3 · answered by Richard S 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
With all the working problems between the Executive branch and the Legislative branch the State Government's will gain all the power either branch loses and in five to ten years the U.S. Government will be struggling to still be able to tax the people.
2007-03-21 08:14:17 · answer #4 · answered by George G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They may. The "political capital" Bush thought he had in '04 is a distant memory (if he ever had it), and pushing around like the executive branch was used to doing is impossible now.
What will happen and has already started are the investigations into all of the misconduct that occurred when Bush had everything his way from '03 to early '06. Hopefully this will curtail some of the imbalance in govt. right now and take the executive branch down a notch.
They need it.
2007-03-21 08:10:42 · answer #5 · answered by Rick 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They already have. The Senate voted 94-2 to roll back the Bush Patriot Act provision that allowed him to fire and appoint without Senate oversight. Looks like many of those 49 Republicans are angry too. Also the entire House Judiciary(10 Dems 9 Repubs) voted, without dissent, for subpoenas.
In the Tony Snow Press conference, I haven't seen such aggressive questioning in many years. It's hard to answer why they refuse to be under oath "if they have nothing to worry about". These are same guys that said "Don't worry about wiretapping if you have nothing to worry about".
2007-03-21 08:12:12 · answer #6 · answered by Middleclassandnotquiet 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hope they will remove some of the acquired Presidential powers.
2007-03-21 08:07:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋