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    Bush and Cheney and others are guilty of impeachable offenses. Why are not more members of Congress speaking out about the lies, the public admissions of permitting torture, the subversion of our Constitution?

    Asked by: apr from Milwaukee, WI. Received 27 Votes.
    Categories: President Bush. Tags: constitution · iraq war · torture.
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    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV)

    Number one, they’re bad enough that it’s not worth wasting our time impeaching them and if we were to have impeached them we should have done it five years ago.  To do it at the end of their term would be that we would get nothing else done and it wouldn’t mean anything. We impeached them through these reports like in the intelligence community phase I; phase II.  I mean everything that comes out, this morning’s papers, the political appointment of lawyers in the justice department. I mean they are impeached, just not legally.

    Answered on Jun 24th, 2008 More

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    What will you do to limit the powers of the presidency to those described in the Constitution? In other words, how will you uphold the oath of office concerning defense of the Constitution when it comes to limits on presidential power?

    Asked by: Josie Tolton from Richmond, IN. Received 68 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Civil Liberties · Ethics · Homeland Security · President Bush. Tags: balance of powers · constitution · imperial presidency · presidency · president.
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    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH)

    I used to be for six years the chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution, so it’s something that I take very seriously. Probably one particular area that Congress should always focus attention on is that the presidency, the executive branch, doesn’t overstep its bounds. The War Power Act is something that was passed some years ago to make sure that when a president is going to commit our troops militarily, overseas, that Congress has a role to play.

    Answered on Mar 13th, 2008 More

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    Republicans talk about fiscal responsibility and Congressional oversight often these days.When they were the majority the national debt soared to 9 trillion and oversight was nonexistent.How do they reconcile the apparent contradiction?

    Asked by: srd from Arlington, VA. Received 25 Votes.
    Categories: Economy · Money & Politics. Tags: budget · constitution · fiscal responsibility · oversight · tax cuts · taxes.
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    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)

    Honesty is the best policy. I think we did spend too much. By cutting taxes we were raising revenue to the federal treasury and bringing down the deficit. In the last year, we did have a big budget showdown over increasing taxes and spending. Through the power of the veto out of the White House we were able to sustain these vetoes, and we were able to stop these enormous tax increases and spending. That was a victory. We had a bit of a wakeup call last election. We understood what our republican voters want from us. They want more fiscal discipline. They want us to stop the pork spending.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Republicans talk about fiscal responsibility and Congressional oversight often these days.When they were the majority the national debt soared to 9 trillion and oversight was nonexistent.How do they reconcile the apparent contradiction?

    Asked by: srd from Arlington, VA. Received 25 Votes.
    Categories: Economy · Money & Politics. Tags: budget · constitution · fiscal responsibility · oversight · tax cuts · taxes.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)

    Government should be efficient, should be effective and accountable to the people. The debt is the largest that we’ve ever had in our history, its over nine trillion dollars. We need rules like pay-go, pay as you go.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Republicans talk about fiscal responsibility and Congressional oversight often these days.When they were the majority the national debt soared to 9 trillion and oversight was nonexistent.How do they reconcile the apparent contradiction?

    Asked by: srd from Arlington, VA. Received 25 Votes.
    Categories: Economy · Money & Politics. Tags: budget · constitution · fiscal responsibility · oversight · tax cuts · taxes.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA)

    When I left Congress in 2001, we had a balanced budget. We were able to get it done. Let me be partisan on this. For a democrat to attack republicans on this. In the 1990s, every one of the democratic budgets spending more than the republicans were proposing and they were voting against the Republican bills because they weren’t spending enough.….Remember we had a shutdown with president Clinton…M:I think president Clinton would say he was on the other side of that.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

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