This is people coming together the way that other Congresses have done to solve big issues.
What they don't do, but should, is assign probabilities to various behaviors by future Congresses.
The bill now needs to be approved by a majority of the state congresses.
Our debt is the product of acts by many presidents and many Congresses over many years.
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Yes, congresses would occasionally spend much more than they collected in taxes, sometimes heedlessly.
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Radical Democratic presidents like Woodrow Wilson have seen their foreign policies reined in by Republican Congresses.
Otherwise, we will continue to have presidents and congresses coming in and pushing their programs du jour.
The problem was that Congress never passed a law to prevent future Congresses from raising the ceiling.
Seven Presidents had tried it, seven Congresses had tried it -- and all of them had failed.
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This is a vote to fulfill the obligations made by previous Congresses under a previous President by and large, okay?
There is plenty of time for future Congresses to reverse what was so laboriously agreed to over the past few weeks.
The problem is that these cuts can be more easily overturned by future Congresses than, say, a major tax reform overhaul.
In 210 years of history and throughout 105 Congresses, only four members of the House have ever been expelled by that body.
These Citizen Congresses will combine old-fashioned town halls with 21st century technology.
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First, all the important spending decisions remain under the control of future Congresses, which cannot be bound by what this one did.
"We were both congressmen -- legislators, as we say in Spanish -- in our respective congresses in our own countries, " he said.
For Democrats, it is a chance -- although slim -- to regain control of the Senate for the first time in three congresses.
This is a program that has been in place for years, that has been supported by Democratic and Republican Presidents, Democratic and Republican congresses.
But lest you think only Republican congresses do this, the Democrats took both houses of congress in 2006, and then the Presidency in 2008.
"This issue has been considered in three different Congresses, " says Steve Elmendorf, spokesman for the pro-reform coalition that counts Microsoft, Dell and Apple among its members.
The nations at ICCAT meetings are typically represented by fisheries' ministers or their representatives, not the sorts of well meaning conservationists that usually attend green congresses.
How many jobs would it have cost us if past Congresses decided not to support the basic research that led to the Internet and the computer chip?
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They forged historic agreements that required tough decisions made by the first President Bush, then made by President Clinton, by Democratic Congresses and by a Republican Congress.
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By requiring this approval step for every major regulation, the REINS Act would foster greater upfront co-operation between agencies and future Congresses, resulting in better legislation and regulation.
But understand, Ed, again, we hear the same process arguments from the same people that used very similar arguments on their side of this in many previous Congresses.
Many are under the misapprehension that it is a vote to authorise new spending, not permission to pay the bills that this and earlier Congresses have already run up.
Rather, the emphasis is on the people and organizations who shaped then bastardized Prohibition by manipulating Presidents, Congresses and the public, and by fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment and fears of urbanism.
Given the pattern of political and business interaction over the past century, any new president is likely to inherit the politically induced economic imbalances bequeathed by previous presidents and congresses.
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This bill has actually been introduced in several Congresses.
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