President Bush asserted on Tuesday that he had the executive power to bypass several parts of two bills: a military authorization act and a measure giving inspectors general greater independence from White House control. Mr. Bush signed the two measures into law. But he then issued a so-called signing statement in which he instructed the executive branch to view parts of each as unconstitutional constraints on presidential power.
In the authorization bill, Mr. Bush challenged four sections. One forbid the money from being used “to exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq”; another required negotiations for an agreement by which Iraq would share some of the costs of the American military operations there.
TVNL Comment: Understand that signing statements allow George Bush to ignore the bills he signs into law.
NHL reporter Jessi Pierce and her three children were killed on Saturday in a weekend house...
Two Oklahoma firefighters were killed the morning of March 20 when a fire tanker crashed on...
Action star and martial artist Chuck Norris has died, his family said Friday. He was 86. Norris'...
When Mayor Zohran Mamdani took the stage at the Museum of the City of New York...
