Congressional Republicans would like to steer the country back toward the constitutional way of governing the Founding Fathers created, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Chattanooga, asserts.
That idea was one of five topics on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s agenda at the recent GOP “Congress of Tomorrow” legislative retreat in Baltimore.
It was a topic that particularly resonated with Fleischmann, the third-term congressman who currently has no opposition for a fourth term in November.
The Founding Fathers created a three-part system of governance, the executive, legislative and judiciary branches, with checks and balances. Most recently with President Barack Obama and his executive orders, but going back to presidents of both parties and as far back as Woodrow Wilson a century ago, the executive branch has attempted to usurp powers, he said.
What the Congress must determine, Fleischmann said, is whether “we going to try to get some of that power back” and “how do we want to go ahead.”