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Article: George W. Bush, Edgar Allan Poe, and the use and abuse of presidential signing statements.
- Article from:
- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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As President George W. Bush approached the beginning of his second term, national news media speculated as to why he had not been willing to use his veto power and whether he would be forced to do so with the new Congress. When he threatened Congress that it should not even think about reopening the Medicare prescription drug legislation, the Washington Post observed: "For Bush, the forceful statement represented a rare invocation of the presidential veto as a weapon in a legislative fight with a Republican Congress. Through more than four years in the White House, Bush has never vetoed any bill" (Baker and Allen 2005). One Baltimore Sun columnist put the matter ...