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Bush may ignore new Defense Authorization law.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
As passed by Congress this fall, the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 included a provision (Section 1008) requiring that the president include his funding requests for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan in the annual budgets he submits to Congress. Years past, the president has not included this spending in his budgets. Consequently, the war has been funded through emergency supplemental appropriations amounting to $450 billion thus far. However, when President Bush signed the Defense Authorization Act on October 17, he also issued a signing statement indicating that he may not abide by two dozen provisions in the bill, including Section 1008.
This is not the first time the president has gone on record saying he may ignore legislation passed by Congress. As AirForceTimes.com explained in an article posted on October 18: "The Bush administration has frequently ignored ...
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