PRESIDENTIAL POWERS HIT AT SENATE HEARING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000200170010-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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.ion pf powers in govern Sen. John Stennis (D. I
ent yesterday turned.U-ito_ Miss,)
said the executive
a platform , for,. attacks .on
the growing authority of the branch has "utterly ignored"
Presidem,,.at the ,expense of Congress in setting up
congressional power, school desegregation guide.
Subcommittee Chairman lines for the South but not
dates contained in, cpngres- of a "congressional counsel
slonalylegislaion " general" to make sure laws
S Fulbri?ht (D- are being administered as
e
, among
Ark. saides io a1~Ttions Congress intended
`Other functions.
and con s r el ins
had been used ,as a .device "_ --.
for the purpose of creating
the impression of congres-
sional consultation "where
the substance of it is lack-
mg." He cited the Tonkin
Gulf resolution as a "blank
check" and said, President
Kennedy duri the Cuban
;rnlssile crisis had -not given
: ngrissional'' __
Sam J. trvi Jr. (D-N.C.) the North.
wild inelUfle_ And Sen.-Strom Thurmond
the use of presidential eler- (R-S.C.) sai congressional
?-gency powers ` le "mdates were completely
emP ignored in Administration
is the question of Ghe, uSe, gf
troops by the Presicie.dt-_ decisions not to build the B
without congressional ac- 70 or use funds appropriated
tion," he said. for the Nike X antiballistic
He alsq mentioned "the missile system,
extent to which the execu- Vance ance Har ke (D-
tive branch pay ignore man- Ind.) called for the creation
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