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welshTerrier2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-21-06 05:36 PM
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one out of two ain't bad?
once again, it's clear mr. bush was absent the day they taught his third grade class "how a bill becomes a law" ... or maybe he wasn't absent and just didn't get it ... or maybe he got it and just doesn't give a damn what the Constitution says ...


source: http://talkleft.com/new_archives/015368.html

Conyers v. Bush: Lawsuit over Federal Deficit Reduction Act

Rep. John Conyer's (D-MI) is suing President Bush over the enactment of the Federal Deficit Rediction Act. Shorter version: The House and Senate passed different versions of the bill and even though they went to conference, the House never voted on the version passed by the Senate as a House clerk changed a provision in the Senate version and Bush signed it into law. Bush can't sign a bill unless it has been agreed to by both the House and Senate.

As Conyers said:

"First it was ignoring the Geneva Conventions," said Conyers. "Then it was the abuse of Presidential signing statements. Now our government is arguing that it can pick and choose which laws to ultimately enact, regardless of clear Constitutional procedures requiring bicameralism before presentment to the President."
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