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View: Relationship Between the US President and the Congress in Foreign Policy Making By: LONG KimKhorn, PUC, 61283, MA. IRs, Cambodia July 24, 2013 There are ways around that the US president of the United States of America and the congress used to play on the foreign policy making. But so far in the history of the US, there are at least three perspectives mentioning below: Firstly, the president of the US has use less of his/ her legal power as the chief of executive than persuading the congress. The presidential system allows him or her to have veto power but only two times. So if after the two times veto, the congress has to find a way around by seeking super-majority voting system within the congress to approve the law, bill and treaty. Here to say, before or after the bill, law, treaty go to the White House, the president by himself or assigned vice-president to the Capital Hill to debate, discuss and pursued with the member of congress to favor his/ her administration including foreign policy. We can see the president get approval on so many issues in the US history from the congress than using constitutional directive power. Secondly, in order to get approval from the congress through his/ her party, he or she try to have bipartisan consensus between the democrat and the republics like during Cold War and the declaration of war to end the World War II in 1945. Thirdly, the two president theory means that - in America the president seems to have weight on the foreign affair than domestic issues/ policies because as what we have known that America is the federal government system which means centralized power under the chief of executive but the states in America has their own House to make domestic policy both security and trade, except militarily armed force recruitment and creation, within their own state border by complying to the federal law. So we can conclude that the relationship between the US president and the congress in foreign policy making lay in this three dimensions and it is very importance for the heart of the American politics. -END-