Bush Signing Statements To Be Investigated

   Bush and his massive amount of signing statements are finally being looked into by the House as the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr. said that he is launching an investigation into whether the Bush Crime Family (my words) has violated any laws that it has ignored by using the signing statements to get around those laws.

    The Bush Crime Family has worked around more than 1,100 laws since he took office.

Crossposted from CommonDreams

Published on Thursday, February 1, 2007 by the Boston Globe

House Panel Probing Bush's Record on Signing Statements

by Charlie Savage

WASHINGTON - The new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, said yesterday that he is launching an aggressive investigation into whether the Bush administration has violated any of the laws it claimed a right to ignore in presidential "signing statements."

Bush has claimed that his executive powers allow him to bypass more than 1,100 laws enacted since he took office. But administration officials insist that Bush's signing statements merely question the laws' constitutionality, and do not necessarily mean that the president also authorized his subordinates to violate them.

Conyers said the president has no power " to ignore duly enacted laws he has negotiated with Congress and signed." And he vowed to find out whether the administration has followed each law it challenged -- including laws touching on classified national security matters, such as the tactics used to interrogate suspected terrorists and the FBI's use of the Patriot Act.

"This is a constitutional issue that no self-respecting federal legislature should tolerate," Conyers said, and he added that the committee was determined to "get to the bottom of this matter, and to be blunt, we are not going to take no for an answer."     Entire Article

 

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