Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Presidential Signing Statements

Signing statements are statements made by the President when signing (or vetoing) a new law passed by Congress. Although signing statements have been issued by presidents since the earliest days of the republic, the use (or overuse, as some allege) of presidential signing statements by the Bush administration has brought these heretofore little thought about documents to the forefront of the U.S. political arena. The Senate Judiciary Committee is now holding hearings into what Chairman Arlen Specter says could amount to abuses of executive power.

Presidential signing statements can be found in a number of places, including the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents at GPO Access.gov. The Hamline community also has access to the presidential signing statements at the HeinOnline library.

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