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Sorry and here's your shmoop dues you're brought to you

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by impoundment government mandated puppy adoption aren't the budget control

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and impoundment act what and hear the pencil answer tonight

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granted surprised patrik role in power the president has expanded

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dramatically since the constitution was written In fact most major

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law making plays air now called by the coach in

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the oval office but every so often congress steps in

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for an esteemed body check against the executive branch is

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intentional legislative fouls Does the budget control and impoundment act

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a grant president The line item veto Well a line

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item veto which congress approved in nineteen ninety six allows

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the president to strike out one measure of a budget

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act rather than throwing out the entire thing But the

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supreme court actually declared that expansion of presidential power to

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be a step kick too far was a budget control

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impoundment act seat past in response to the tonkin gulf

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resolution Well the nineteen sixty four tonkin gulf resolution authorized

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the president to use conventional force in southeast asia even

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though congress hadn't formally declared war against vietnam Well that's

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a little war horse before the cart now in response

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To this expansion of president power congress eventually passed the

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war powers act which took away the president's toy soldiers

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so to speak by placing a sixty day limit on

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the use of troops in hostile areas without congressional authorization

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Could the budget control and impound inactive bendy declared unconstitutional

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by the supreme court Well in nineteen seventy two president

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nixon tried to withhold funds for the federal water pollution

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control act a lot he had veto in which congress

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had overwritten But the supreme court ruled in train versus

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city of new york that nixon could not withhold funds

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for congressional projects So in this case they were on

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congress aside we can also eliminate e because nixon had

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nothing to do with proposing the budget control and impoundment

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act in the first place which means the budget control

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in impound the naqvi requires the president to spend all

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funds appropriated by congress Presidents have long claimed the power

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to refuse to spend or impound money congress authorizes to

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be spent especially on projects they don't particularly like Nixon

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indulged in the practice more than any other president So

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congress passed the law to severely restrict this kind of

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penny pinching behavior That makes be the correct answer Sometimes

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the desire to withhold funds comes from a decent place

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like raining in federal spending during periods of high inflation

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or a national emergency But most presidents used impoundment as

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a wayto put projects they didn't like behind budgetary bars 00:02:40.777 --> [endTime] I'm not a crook

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