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Speaker's Role In Foreign Policy Is a Recent, and Sensitive, Issue
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| Contributor | CBlock941 |
| Last Edited | CBlock941 Apr 05, 2007 09:16am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, April 5, 2007 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The question to former president Jimmy Carter yesterday was: Is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a better envoy to the Middle East than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice?
Carter, a diplomat himself, demurred. But his interlocutor had put a finger squarely on a sore spot -- some would say in the eye of -- the Bush White House. By law, Congress must keep out of diplomacy. In history, House speakers and lawmakers have crossed that line, some with the blessing of the president and some against his wishes. |
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