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 CHICAGO (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney delivered a scathing report card Friday on the Democratic-controlled Congress that marks its 100-day milestone this weekend, rebuking its leadership for trying to usurp foreign policy and military operations.
Cheney continued the Bush administration's denouncement of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent trip to Syria, saying "we don't need 535 secretaries of state," referring to the number of lawmakers in Congress.
"No member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, has any business jetting around the world with a diplomatic agenda contrary to that of the president and the secretary of state. It is for the executive branch, not the Congress, to conduct the foreign policy of the United States of America," Cheney said to applause at the Heritage Foundation's annual leadership conference.
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