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In reply to the discussion: Republicans muscle tax cut bill through House [View all]cyberpj
(10,794 posts)indicating: I'm siging off on everything but (fill in the blank).
Didn't that happen?
More than once?
Apparently no one cared enough to do anything about it:
ABA: President's Bill-Signing Statements Violate the Constitution
The Associated Press
July 25, 2006
President Bush's penchant for writing exceptions to laws he has just signed violates the Constitution, an American Bar Association task force says in a report highly critical of the practice.
The attachments, known as bill-signing statements, say Bush reserves a right to revise, interpret or disregard measures on national security and constitutional grounds.
ABA policymakers will decide whether to denounce the statements and encourage a legal fight over them.
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Did they?