The jockeying for power between Congress and the executive branch continued, ebbing and flowing according to the party occupying the White House. With the Democrats entrenched in Congress and a swapping of the executive between the parties, the cries of Congress were far louder during the Nixon and Gerald Ford presidencies than during the Kennedy-Johnson period. Congress curtailed the executive branch with passage of the War Powers Act (1973) and the Impoundment Control Act (1974), which reasserted Congress's power over the federal purse. |
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