GOP senators want emergency powers capped to stop president 'acting like a king'
More than a dozen Republican senators introduced new legislation seeking to put a cap on presidential emergency powers, days before they were expected to vote on a measure against President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration on immigration.
In a backgrounder on the new bill, Lee's office said that"most people would agree that Congress should grant the president some degree of emergency power. But while Trump's recent emergency declaration "focused attention" on the presidential powers afforded under the National Emergencies Act of 1976, Lee's office said,"in reality, the abuse of emergency powers is a bipartisan, decades-long problem."
In addition to Lee, 14 other GOP senators have thrown their support behind the bill, including Chuck Grassley of Iowa; Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Mitt Romney of Utah; Ted Cruz of Texas; Joni Ernst of Iowa; Roy Blunt of Missouri; Jerry Moran of Kansas; Lamar Alexander of Tennessee; Roger Wicker of Mississippi; Ben Sasse of Nebraska; Ron Johnson of Wisconsin; Rob Portman of Ohio; Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania; and Todd Young of Indiana.
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