http://www.proppe.org/blog/2006/05/24/the-stealth-veto-presidential-signing-statements/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:13:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.proppe.org/blog/2006/05/24/the-stealth-veto-presidential-signing-statements/comment-page-1/#comment-1118 Ally Sat, 27 May 2006 00:31:00 +0000 http://www.proppe.org/blog/?p=14#comment-1118 I appreciate your thorough investigation and thank you for providing a summary of the presidential veto process and signing statments, which I had not heard about until today. In the Boston.com article, Elisa Massimino, Washington director for Human Rights Watch states, ''The basic civics lesson that there are three co-equal branches of government that provide checks and balances on each other is being fundamentally rejected by this executive branch." What can we as citizens do to a) bring this issue to the attention of every day citizens and b) let our government officials know that we want every one of his 500 statements reviewed? - Ally I appreciate your thorough investigation and thank you for providing a summary of the presidential veto process and signing statments, which I had not heard about until today. In the Boston.com article, Elisa Massimino, Washington director for Human Rights Watch states, ”The basic civics lesson that there are three co-equal branches of government that provide checks and balances on each other is being fundamentally rejected by this executive branch.” What can we as citizens do to a) bring this issue to the attention of every day citizens and b) let our government officials know that we want every one of his 500 statements reviewed? – Ally

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