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Congressman: Bush Signed Bill That Didn’t Pass Congress

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Posted on Mar 20, 2006

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has asked the White House why the president signed a version of the Budget Reconciliation Act that apparently did not pass the House.

Also, check out a lawsuit on the issue, and an earlier news report.

Raw Story:

Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) has alleged in a letter to White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card that President Bush signed a version of the Budget Reconciliation Act that, in effect, did not pass the House of Representatives.

Further, Waxman says there is reason to believe that the Speaker of the House called President Bush before he signed the law, and alerted him that the version he was about to sign differed from the one that actually passed the House. If true, this would put the President in willful violation of the U.S. Constitution.

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By Arch~Angel, March 24, 2006 at 4:55 pm #
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HopeSeekr of xMule:

Do you have references for your statements? If so that would make a blockbuster article.

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By worried, March 24, 2006 at 4:07 pm #
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im just worried what will happen when his term comes up, is he going to have established a perminent dictatorship by then? or will another from his regime take over as the new head?

i mean they havent gone thru all the trouble of taking away our civil rights and invading other countries and creating their whole new world order to simply step down after a couple terms and let someone else reap the rewards

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By HopeSeekr of xMule, March 24, 2006 at 11:07 am #
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Not so...it’s far worse.

Rep. Hastert (R, IL) was personally responsible for the typo.  As of today, it has been revealed that the Whitehouse had been informed of the typo but that Bush signed it any way.  It has futher been revealed that Bush used a new “power” he is creating called a “signatory letter”.  Basically, he wrote a little note on the bill that said “This is the correct amount because I say it is” and signed it.

Now, it is likely this will go to the Supreme Court.  Due to precendence first set in an 1876 supreme Court case, the court has decided that it cannot judge a matter if it would lead to proving that there is a conspiracy in Congress to enact illegal legislation.  What this means is that since this would have had to be done via conspiracy that the Supreme Court will rubber stamp this law passage as, well, lawful, and then a signatory letter will become defacto Constitutional law.

At that point, we are effectively in a complete dictatorship run by Executive Orders and Signatory Law, just what Bush, Cheney and Allito want.

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By spiiderweb, March 20, 2006 at 9:38 am #
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I posted about this back in February. It sounds simple enough. A typo got corrected. But it effectively negated the House vote.

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