ABSTRACT
So many suggestions for changing the relation between the president and Congress have been made from time to time that a brief survey of such proposals is pertinent. If the president were able to threaten to dissolve the House of Representatives, would he find it easier to carry through his program? Incidentally, the Senate is the more recalcitrant branch of Congress. Special interests that struggle one with the other in Congress would find it necessary to appeal to the White House when their demands were affected by the presidential program. The executive power of veto would be cheapened, since its more frequent use on a selective basis would not carry anything like the rebuke to Congress that present presidential disapproval entails. Congress might well observe more strictly the rules that ban extraneous matters in appropriation bills. The hearings held by the Bureau officials are not attended by men from the Congressional committee staff.
