Cheney argued that the Reagan administration had done nothing improper because foreign policy and national security were solely controlled by the executive branch. Cheney attacked the War Powers Act and Church reforms as brazen attempts to create “all but unlimited Congressional power.” He argued that the legislative branch did not have the power to bar the President from funding the Contras. “The power of the purse,” Cheney wrote, “is not and was never intended to be a license for Congress to usurp Presidential powers and functions.” The minority report even attacked the Reagan
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