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Separate Senate Power

Referring to Senate power,
Mr. Scott claimed that "if the
Senate is not constitutionally
and politically endowed with
separate power, it will
inevitably decline; first, to the
overriding discipline that
prevails in the House and
second, to the dramatic
intensification of power and
emergency fiat that seems to
surround the Presidency."

"Perhaps," the Pennsylvania
senator concluded, "The
Senate's great contribution in
the next few years may be the
restoration of comity and
civility to public debate in
America."