Innocents Abroad: How the President Can Discourage Congressional Diplomacy

Publication Date: July 1989

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Michael E. Lind

Research Area: Government

Keywords: Government reform

Type: Report

Abstract:

Countries that attempt to play one branch of the U.S. government against another, whether dramatically as in the case of the Wright-Ortega affair, or quietly through influence over domestic pressure groups, need to be firmly discouraged by the Executive. So do Congressmen who abuse the powers of the legislative branch. The President should use all the means at his disposal and request additional, new measures, to ensure that the U.S. government speaks in the diplomatic arena with a single voice.