The problem with signing statements
Cato Institute
by Richard A. Epstein
07/18/06
There is nothing new about a president adding a 'statement on signing' to legislation he has approved. Since the country was founded, presidents have used these statements for relatively innocuous purposes: to thank supporters, explain their support for the bill or express satisfaction -- or dissatisfaction -- with legislation passed by Congress. What is new and troubling is the extraordinary frequency with which President Bush has used these statements, and the unorthodox way he uses them...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6539
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Richard A. Epstein
07/18/06
There is nothing new about a president adding a 'statement on signing' to legislation he has approved. Since the country was founded, presidents have used these statements for relatively innocuous purposes: to thank supporters, explain their support for the bill or express satisfaction -- or dissatisfaction -- with legislation passed by Congress. What is new and troubling is the extraordinary frequency with which President Bush has used these statements, and the unorthodox way he uses them...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6539
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 18. Jul, 16:34
