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cosmik debris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 03:10 PM
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Has HRC taken a position in the Unitary Executive Theory?
I don't need flames, just information.

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rcsl1998 Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 03:31 PM
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1. All Candidates (D & R) Should BE Questioned...
...in general AND in specifics about this- OVER & OVER - These 'changes' cannot be allowed to stand.
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Torn_Scorned_Ignored Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 03:43 PM
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2. Clinton vows to check executive power
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/11/clinton_vows_to_check_executive_power/

Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush's expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put his own interpretation on bills passed by Congress or to claim authority to disobey them entirely.

"I think you have to restore the checks and balances and the separation of powers, which means reining in the presidency," Clinton told the Boston Globe's editorial board.
Although Bush has issued hundreds of signing statements, declarations that accompany his signature on bills approved by Congress, Clinton said she would use the statements only to clarify bills that might be confusing or contradictory. She also said she did not subscribe to the "unitary executive" theory that argues the Constitution prevents Congress from passing laws limiting the president's power over executive branch operations. Adherents to the theory say any president who refuses to obey such laws is not really breaking the law.

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