President. this amendment in my judgment is bad on principle because it transfers what is constitutionally given legislative authority to the Congress to the President. Second. in terms of practice and procedure. this procedure is not going to work well. and. in spite of the intention of the authors. is going to result in people being hurt by suspensions of supposedly noncontroversial duties simply because the process in the executive branch is much less transparent and open. almost necessarily so. than the one that we have here in the Congress. Third. we all on occasion have introduced what we call private bills for the relief of individuals usually having to deal with immigration cases. They are submitted to the Judiciary Committee. and some of those bills are the result of years of conflict within the executive branch involving an individual whose citizenship or whose reasons for being in the United States was being questioned. being litigated. and Congress has properly been the court of last resort to determine whether those kinds of cases should be settled politically. by ourselves. or through the often complex and administrative procedures in the executive branch. I urge Members to think very carefully about the question: If we yield this kind of congressional authority to the executive branch on tariffs. how different is that from deciding to yield. as we might if we set this precedent. the same kind of authority to an Executive procedure for determining the disposition of the kinds of private bills that frequently we all decide to introduce and on which we seek action?
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