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Presidential Signing Statements Continue to Interpret Public Access to Gov't Docs.

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Charlie Savage, Boston Globe: “In a 27-page report written for lawmakers [see related info below], the research service said the Bush administration is using signing statements as a means to slowly condition Congress into accepting the White House’s broad conception of presidential power, which includes a presidential right to ignore laws he believes are unconstitutional.”

  • CRS Report – Presidential Signing Statements: Constitutional and Institutional Implications, published October 20, 2006. “This report focuses on the use of signing statements by recent Administrations, with particular emphasis on the current Administration and legislative proposals (H.R. 5486, H.J.Res. 87, H.J.Res. 89 and S. 3731) to regulate the use and issuance of signing statements.”

    • Related government documents and postings:

  • President Bush Signs Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, October 4 2006
  • President’s Statement on H.R. 5441, the “Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007”, October 4, 2006: “Section 513 of the Act purports to direct the conduct of security and suitability investigations. To the extent that section 513 relates to access to classified national security information, the executive branch shall construe this provision in a manner consistent with the President’s exclusive constitutional authority, as head of the unitary executive branch and as Commander in Chief, to classify and control access to national security information and to determine whether an individual is suitable to occupy a position in the executive branch with access to such information.”
  • Wikipedia entry on signing statements
  • postings on Presidential Signing Statements

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