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What are two main sources of congressional authority in a field of foreign affairs?

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@saldis

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@civicsiscool44

Answer 3

Oh crap i have no clue

Answer 4

@saldis thanks anyway:3

Answer 5

Congressional activism and Influence on foreign policy are two main sources of congressional authority in a field of foreign affairs. The congress becomes involved especially in treaties made by the executive branch regarding foreign policy with other countries. It is beyond the executive branch's (president) power to dictate the legislative branch (senate) to agree with him at all times.

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@civicsiscool44 thank you

Answer 7

The president, or executive branch, has the power to initiate as well as implement foreign policy through responses to foreign events, proposals for legislation, negotiation of international agreements, nomination of leading foreign policy officials, and statements of policy. Congressional approval is needed for spending, and consent is required for finalizing of trade agreements. More ambiguous are war powers, which are spelled out more clearly for Congress but in practice are dominated by presidential action.

"Generally speaking, Congress does not try to upstage the president on major international issues but likes to keep an oar in the water," says Donald R. Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. But other experts point to a number of examples in which Congress has openly defied presidents, such as refusing to approve the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and 1920, the overwhelming defeat of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1999, and the ongoing opposition to approving the Convention on the Law of the Sea despite support by successive U.S. presidents.

Congress has historically used its oversight role, issuing subpoenas in event of investigations, to show its disapproval of executive actions or change policy. High-profile investigations in the last half-century include probes into the Iran-Contra Affair and the intelligence problems leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. More recent investigations include the Justice Department's conduct in a cross-border gun sting known as the "Fast and the Furious" operation and the scrutiny into circumstances surrounding the September 2011 attacks on a U.S. consulate in Libya.

Answer 8

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