The second oversight role of Congress in aiming at presidents in their diplomatic work is budget-making. The American President is the most superlative leader of the global economy, of-course, besides the respect, almost foreign countries expect the U. S's help. Congress stands as the greatest check on the abuse of presidential power to spend a big national fund. One of foreign policies, Congress can react against unreasonable decisions of executive chief by cutting funds. Today, …show more content…
But, majority of Americans believe that the oversight function of budget-making is very important to balance federal funds even though money transfers are slow.
Lastly, the Founders set up a system of checks and balances in military affairs and gave
Congress a sole right to declare war, this right called war-making in foreign policy making. Basically, the President's obligation is protecting this nation from foreign aggression and at the same time conserving peace around the world. Because the president of the U.S is among the most powerful people in the globe and is Commander in chief of the military, the Congress seized for itself the authority and skillfulness necessary to exercise its full foreign policy oversight powers over the chief executive. According to the textbook, “Together the roles of chief diplomat and commander-in chief enable the president to exercise tremendous power over foreign affairs, greater power than over domestic matters” (338); consequently, Congress should increase in war-making to prevent abusing the powers of the chief executive branch. For instant, Nixon led Congress passed the “War Powers Resolution” to restrict his quality to commit troops to combat in Vietnam (352), or George H.W Bush sent soldiers to invade Panama in1989 before he sent two-page letter to …show more content…
Since the President is dominant in foreign policy, Congress should play a significant function in this field as well. It is obvious that if the President has the most powerful authority, he might become an autocrat. At that point, those foreign policies will not serve for American interests anymore. Thus, a balance in power for making foreign policy is needed, and Congress is the key to play this essential oversight role. I think that the Founders had reason to believe it too dangerous to give war powers to the president alone. Instead, they gave the power of war-making to Congress. Besides, Congress acts as a check on the president's policies to appropriate all money for carrying out foreign affairs, and Congress needs to make ratification of treaties and trade agreements. Recently, globalization to all parts of the world through the Internet, we aware of the relationship of foreign policy to everyday lives and standard of living. As the head among leaders of countries, the American president must pay attention our problems such as pollution that affect climate change, poverty or country which providing sanctuaries for terrorists for suiting with the head of the world's strongest military and economic