Thursday, June 28, 2007

Did You Know - Signing Statements Become Law

President Bush lives in his own little world. He no longer prays to God - for him, that's like talking to himnself.

Federal agencies ignored 30 percent of the laws Bush objected to in signing statements last year, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office. In 2006, President Bush issued signing statements for 11 out of the 12 appropriations bills passed by Congress, claiming a right to bypass a total of 160 provisions in them.

In a sample set of 19 provisions, the GAO found that “10 provisions were executed as written, 6 were not, and 3 were not triggered and so there was no agency action to examine.”



From Think Progress.

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