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Article: Presidential Signing Statements: Agency Implementation of Selected Provisions of Law.
- Article from:
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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GAO-08-553T March 11, 2008
Both Republican and Democratic Presidents have issued signing statements since the early nineteenth century. Signing statements usually take the form of a presidential statement or press release issued in connection with the President's signing of a bill. Some signing statements praise the newly signed law and those involved in its passage. In other signing statements, Presidents have offered their interpretation of or explained how agencies will execute a new law. Presidents have also raised constitutional concerns or objections to new statutes in signing statements. The Chairmen of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the House ...