Legislative Branch

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/42950 


     The United States and President Obama have been trying to do nothing but push the new U.S. stimulus plan to help increase the financial status of the U.S., and well as to help citizens out in this time of financial recession. The Senate is actually considering borrowing money from China, and using it to help the United States come out of this recession and become financially stable. The insufficiency within the state is that both of the Houses are unclear about what they would like to do. They believe that borrowing this money will only lead to more debt within the United States.


    This article is clearly demonstrating the powers found in Article 1, The Legislative Branch, Section 8, “The Congress shall have Power to borrow money on the credit of the United States.”, found in the United States Constitution. This article clearly demonstrates that Congress has the right to borrow money from other countries, and to use the money for different countries. Even though this decision, empower checks and balances, Congress still has the upper hands. A check that may come up is that, if the President will make a treaty with China or not to help with borrowing this money, this can be found in Article 2, Section 2 of the U.S. constitution, “He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur”. This is a controversy because, if all of the Senate is not willing to vote for borrowing money and making a treaty, Congress can veto and reject this causing the U.S. financial crisis to continue to deteriorate.

    In my own opinion, I am agreeing with the Senate by borrowing money to help bail the U.S. out of this crisis. This is a power that is constitutionally given to the Senate. I couldn’t see the United States surviving another depression where the cause is our society and its carelessness. I don’t understand how modern society is so advanced and how something small, as in managing our countries economical status is very unstable. This article is interesting because it deals with supporting China and importing and exporting goods. I also wonder is the president putting this off because the Senate is unsure about this action?