Cheney's Office Screening Bills For Potential Limits To Presidential Power Before They Reach Bush's Desk...

Boston Globe Charlie Savage May 28, 2006 at 07:56 PM
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The office of Vice President Dick Cheney routinely reviews pieces of legislation before they reach the president's desk, searching for provisions that Cheney believes would infringe on presidential power, according to former White House and Justice Department officials.

The officials said Cheney's legal adviser and chief of staff, David Addington , is the Bush a dministration's leading architect of the ``signing statements" the president has appended to more than 750 laws. The statements assert the president's right to ignore the laws because they conflict with his interpretation of the Constitution.

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