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Monday, June 18, 2007
Law - GAO releases report on signing statements
The GAO has issued a report on Presidential Signing Statements Accompanying the Fiscal Year 2006 Appropriatons Acts. The cover letter, dated June 18, 2006, runs 12 pages. The remaining 32 pages are the enclosures.
The ILB has posted quite a number of entries on signing statements at both the federal and state level.
[More] The AP, via the Washington Post, has an article last this afternoon on the Government Accountability Office report. A quote:
The limited GAO study examined signing statements concerning 19 provisions in fiscal year 2006 spending bills. It found that in six of those cases the provisions were not executed as written.In one case the Pentagon did not include separate budget justification documents explaining how the Iraq War funding was to be spent in its 2007 budget request. In another, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not submit a proposal and spending plan for housing, as Congress directed.
The White House, in issuing the statements, has argued that the president has a right to control executive branch employees and officers, that he has authority to withhold from Congress information sometimes considered privileged or that Congress should not interfere with his constitutional role as commander in chief.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 18, 2007 03:41 PM
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