The Audacity of Signing Statements

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  March 12th at 10:30 PM  | 

As a candidate for President, Senator Barack Obama told NPR that “he might use signing statements to clarify his position on an ambiguous law, he would not abuse signing statements to undermine the will of Congress.”  President Obama yesterday used a signing statement on “dozens of provisions in a $410 billion government spending bill” recently passed by Congress.  Undoing many provisions of the Omnibus spending | Read More »