But the fact is that the -- it is Congress that has to act to ensure that Congress pays its bills -- or that the bills that Congress ran up are paid.
And there is an opportunity -- and has been now for quite some time -- an opportunity to help the economy grow faster, to help it create more jobs, to protect the jobs of teachers and firefighters, and policemen and women, and Congress has failed to act on those.
Congress has yet to act on the expiring tax cuts and if nothing is done, dividend taxes will rise next year.
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And Congress has failed to act thus far on elements of the congressional "To-Do" list that would also have positive economic effect.
Since November, Congress has failed to act on the debt ceiling.
But Congress has refused to act on most of the other ideas in my jobs plan that economists say could put a million more Americans back to work.
In other words, Congress has broad power to act under the Commerce Clause, but there has to be existing commercial activity for that to happen.
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Bush has asked Congress to act quickly on the bailout proposal after news of failing financial institutions and frozen credit markets.
The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, established this year, has been drumming up support for the administration and Congress to act quickly on climate change, but the committee has no authority to draft legislation.
Congress now has one week left to act, and there are still paths forward.
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Because Congress has given me the authority to act if it does not do so by August, one way or another, we will protect the privacy of medical records this year.
We're not -- beyond the four legislative items that I mentioned earlier that the President has called on Congress to act on as soon as possible, we're not at a point of putting forward more proposals that we would like to see taken or that we plan to take.
Time and again on the stump, he has resorted to telling Congress to act, never meeting with them and striking a compromise himself.
It is enormously gratifying that the Congress has been able to reenact the Patriot Act over the strident - and often unfounded - objections leveled against the original legislation by its critics.
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The broad scope of the Clinton Administrations's legislative initiative in this area is reminiscent of its recent efforts to effect wholesale and permanent dismantling of statutory restrictions concerning the Palestine Liberation Organization. (2) In both cases, the Administration has insisted that Congress act precipitously to effect sweeping changes in the law of the land.
The Library of Congress has the ability to grant exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which it has done in the past for smartphone users who wished to unlock their phones.
I'd also like to draw your attention to the fact that tomorrow, in New Hampshire, the President will meet with a family and make remarks urging Congress to act to extend and expand the payroll tax cut that has given tax breaks to millions of families across this country.
Instead, we let outside analysts, outside economists assess it, and they made a judgment that the portions of the American Jobs Act that Congress has yet to pass would add an addition 1 million-plus jobs to the American economy right now.
And the Congress still has within its power the ability to act, to do the right thing, to take up a balanced approach to have Democrats and Republicans vote for it, and to get it to the White House so he can sign it into law.
And we need to make sure that we take the steps necessary to continue to grow the economy, that Congress acts on proposals the President has put forward that they have yet to act on to, for example, put teachers back to work and first responders back to work, to put American construction workers back on the job.
At the pre-university level, the Obama White House has begun working with Congress to change the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act, which has been accused of being under-funded and inflexible.
For four years, as you know, Congress has struggled to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and to fix No Child Left Behind.
We all understand the frustration of Arizona and border states at this problem, but believe that instead of a patchwork of 50 state laws, that Congress has in the past and should act now to enact comprehensive immigration reform.
There is no question that there has been a reluctance to act in Congress on these issues.
Now, let me just say that Congress still has it within its capacity to be responsible and act.
The American Bar Association, often considered the parent of the Independent Counsel Act, also has urged Congress not to reauthorize the law.
But this influence did not stop Congress passing the Dodd-Frank act, has yet to stop Britain's planned divide between commercial and investment banking, and has not held up a host of new EU regulations.
He certainly has used that opportunity to call on Congress to act, to call on Americans to let their representatives know how they feel with regards to the initiatives that he's put forward to grow the economy and create jobs.
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