Sentence examples for congress powers from inspiring English sources

To that end, some in the Senate propose a constitutional amendment giving Congress powers to curb political spending by outside groups.

That is why they created independent courts as a check on the executive and for when that failed gave Congress powers of impeachment.

The court has emphasised repeatedly that Congress' powers to regulate interstate commerce doesn't allow it to do anything; it just so happens that Congress never steps out of bounds.

"Although the president alone effects the formal act of recognition," Justice Kennedy wrote, "Congress' powers, and its central role in making laws, give it substantial authority regarding many of the policy determinations that precede and follow the act of recognition itself".

In this case, we must again determine whether the Constitution grants Congress powers it now asserts, but which many States and individuals believe it does not possess.

Hopefully not since the Voting Rights Act turns on Congress' powers to confront racial discrimination under the 14th and 15th Amendments.

(c) WAR powers resolution requirements.

And he vowed to outlast NATO powers bombing his country.

However, his First Dates-honed powers of diplomacy are something to behold.

But even here the NATO powers proved divided and indecisive.

Clegg commits to new Wales powers.