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President Bush Starts Major Fight With Congress
WASHINGTON President Bush was set to act Tuesday on his State of the Union promise to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to ignore any future earmarks not voted on by Congress......As many as 95 percent of earmarks are inserted after Congress has voted on appropriations measures, and the pork is never seen by most lawmakers... This sounds like a real Marbury v. Madison fight. By doing this with an Executive Order, he is starting a constitutional battle that cuts to the heart of congressional spending. The only way congress could get around this is either by impeachment, or refusing to appropriate money at all. Some constitutional rocket scientist came up with this plan, and it will reach the Supreme Court. Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-01-30 |
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