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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (140989)	7/17/2010 1:15:13 AM
From: Paul Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544246

...and follows through on it. Follows through on it? What does that mean? What power in the Constitution are you referring to? Your understanding as you express it here does not seem rooted in what the Constitution actually says. The powers of each branch of the government is spelled out in the Constitution. Congress has authority over financial and budgetary matters through the power to collect taxes and the Constitution grants Congress exclusively the power to appropriate funds. In addition it is the Congress that has the authority to borrow money. Those powers do not exist in the executive branch. The President can suggest any budget he wants and when the Congress is controlled by the opposition party the President's suggestion is often considered "dead on arrival." Then the President starts wishing he had a line item veto power, which he does not.