John Barrasso Quotes

Dealing with immigration should originate in Congress. The president should not act unilaterally.

We are for abiding by the Constitution and recognize that Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 enumerates the power of establishing 'an uniform process of naturalization' to the Congress.

The Founders of this Nation entrusted the lawmaking power to the Congress alone in both good and bad times … the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a law-maker.

Love or hate the outcome of what Trump has decided to do, keeping or scrapping DACA is outside of his authority as president. The executive branch enforces the law; it does not make it.

The authority of Congress must be respected …. The President must confine himself to his executive duties—to obey and execute, not make the laws.

The power to make war is vested in Congress and not in the President. Congress has no constitutional authority to grant such authority to the president.

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The imperial Presidency requires a passive Congress.

Congress ... is far more than the simple, limited advisory council that most Presidents would like to maintain.

Congress has chosen to recognize that a president may be forced to pursue legitimate foreign policy objectives by covert means. Such recognition, however, does not mean it surrenders the right to be informed of covert measures so that it can express its views as to the legitimacy of the goals or the wisdom of seeking to achieve them.

If our forefathers had wanted Congress to be the Commander in Chief, they would have said so.

When I embarked in the government, it was with a determination to intermeddle not at all with the legislature.

It is up to Congress to see to it that its powers do not slip through its fingers

The President … does not originate laws or resolutions; he takes no part in the deliberations on them during their progress; he does not act in relation to them indirectly by advice or interference of any sort, until they have passed both houses: it is only when their operations are concluded that his power begins.

Every American war has brought a struggle between Congress and the Executive over war powers. The Constitution is somewhat annoyingly ambiguous on the point declaring that the President is Commander in Chief but empowering Congress to provide for the common defense, declare war, and raise and support armies.

We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.

Comprehensive immigration reform should be debated and passed by Congress.

If you want to change a law, you have to pass a law. Presidents don't write laws. Congress writes laws.

Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.