Bush’s Signing Statements Are a Real Danger

By Bob Barr
Special to Roll Call
July 17, 2006, 4:35 p.m.

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.



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