Congress Rules
To The Editor:

The Bush Administration bombards the American public with the inherent power of the president. Under the U.S. Constitution, it states that the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States. This does not grant limitless authority. The president does not have any lawmaking power and he cannot add or subtract from his Constitutional or statutory powers or duties by proclamations, executive orders, directives, signing statements or any other decrees.

The Constitution subjects the president to Congress' control. Congress can make laws, spend money, create whatever agencies, offices and officers it deems necessary and proper to fulfill the functions of the executive branch. If the president refuses to carry out Congress' directives or disregards illegal activities in the executive branch in violation of his constitutional duty, he can be impeached, convicted and removed from office (see note).

The president is not a dictator and he actually does not have much power.

One Congress after another has allowed one president after another to usurp one power after another. We, the people, must do our duty and demand that Congress use its Constitutional power to end presidential usurpation. Janet McCarthy Flushing