Tag Archives: signing statements

What must Bush be thinking now?

25 Jul

Even the Republican controlled Senate seems to be turning against him.

Sen. Specter Readies Bill to Sue Bush
By LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press Writer

A powerful Republican committee chairman who has led the fight against President Bush’s signing statements said Monday he would have a bill ready by the end of the week allowing Congress to sue him in federal court.

“We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will…authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president’s acts declared unconstitutional,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said on the Senate floor.

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Republican Arlen Specter comes out fighting – Against Bush and the “signing statements”

6 May

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the White House of a ”very blatant encroachment” on congressional authority, said . . . he will hold an oversight hearing into President Bush’s assertion that he has the power to bypass more than 750 laws enacted over the past five years.

”There is some need for some oversight by Congress to assert its authority here,” Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said in an interview. ”What’s the point of having a statute if . . . the president can cherry-pick what he likes and what he doesn’t like?”

Hearing vowed on Bush’s powers

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President claims right to ignore laws..

4 May

Bush asserts right to ignore hundreds of laws even as he signs them

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