Bush’s Signing Statements Are a Real Danger

• By Bob Barr
• Special to Roll Call
• July 18, 2006, Midnight

Late in June, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter (R), presided over a hearing about presidential signing statements. This might seem an obscure issue, of little importance in Americans’ daily lives. However, presidential signing statements go to the very heart of our country’s system of checks and balances.