Lawmaker challenges Cheney on executive order
USA Today
06/24/07
If Vice President Cheney believes his office is not an ‘entity within the executive branch,’ then a House Democratic leader says taxpayers shouldn’t have to finance his executive expenses. Cheney’s office has claimed his constitutional role as president of the Senate also makes him part of the legislative branch and therefore is not covered by a presidential order requiring executive branch workers to report their numbers of classified and declassified government documents...
http://tinyurl.com/23yn2b
Dems plan to cut Cheney out of executive funding bill
Raw Story
06/24/07
Following Vice President Dick Cheney’s assertion that his office is not a part of the executive branch of the US government, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) plans to introduce an amendment to the the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill to cut funding for Cheney’s office. The amendment to the bill that sets the funding for the executive branch will be considered next week in the House of Representatives...
http://tinyurl.com/26xfyz
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+order
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
06/24/07
If Vice President Cheney believes his office is not an ‘entity within the executive branch,’ then a House Democratic leader says taxpayers shouldn’t have to finance his executive expenses. Cheney’s office has claimed his constitutional role as president of the Senate also makes him part of the legislative branch and therefore is not covered by a presidential order requiring executive branch workers to report their numbers of classified and declassified government documents...
http://tinyurl.com/23yn2b
Dems plan to cut Cheney out of executive funding bill
Raw Story
06/24/07
Following Vice President Dick Cheney’s assertion that his office is not a part of the executive branch of the US government, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) plans to introduce an amendment to the the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill to cut funding for Cheney’s office. The amendment to the bill that sets the funding for the executive branch will be considered next week in the House of Representatives...
http://tinyurl.com/26xfyz
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+order
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
rudkla - 25. Jun, 11:17
