Wednesday,
March 17,
2021

Resolution

To make the federal government more effective, presidents should be given fast-track authority to propose bills, for all types of legislation, that Congress must approve or deny by majority vote and without change.

For the affirmative:

Terry Moe is the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has written extensively on the presidency and public bureaucracy, as well as American politics and political institutions more generally. He has also written extensively on the politics of American education. His most recent book is The Politics of Institutional Reform: Katrina, Education, and the Second Face of Power (2019).

For the negative:

Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute. His research interests include executive power and the role of the presidency as well as federalism and over-criminalization. He is the author of False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency and The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power; and is editor of Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything.