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In the immediate aftermath of the Chadha decision, some members of Congress searched for a universal response that will fit all the 207 cases. Some of the certain results of the decision, then, will be a loss of governmental efficiency, a heightening of the level of conflict between the Congress and the executive, and exacerbation of the normal tendency toward stalemate and deadlock in the policy-making process. Until 1940, the Congress had always regulated immigration through precisely-written statutes that the Justice Department was directed to enforce to the letter—a relationship between the branches conforming exactly to what the founders had in mind. The veto became much too convenient a device, in the view of executive branch officials and many congressmen as well. The mutual risk of dissolution and removal should encourage both Congress and the president to cooperate in fulfilling their governmental responsibilities while the longer presidential and congressional terms could allow such cooperation the time needed to produce results.