Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2008
Latest action · Jul 28, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 8, 2008
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2008 - Requires the President to transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the chairmen of the House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary, and to the Senate Majority Leader each signing statement that declares or insinuates the President's intention to disregard provisions of any bill he has signed into law because he believes it is unconstitutional.
Requires the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, or White House Counsel to testify before such congressional committees at the behest of any single Member of either committee to explain the meaning and justification of every presidential signing statement covered by this Act.
Prohibits executive privilege from being recognized as a valid basis for refusing to appear or refusing to answer a question pertinent to the legal reasoning behind a signing statement or its legal ramifications.
Bars authorization or expenditure of federal funds to implement any law accompanied by a presidential signing statement noncompliant with this Act.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 28, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
- May 8, 2008Introduced in House
- May 8, 2008Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Law.
- Appropriations
- Authorization
- Congress
- Congressional hearings
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Congressional witnesses
- Congressional-executive relations
- Constitutional law
- Economics and Public Finance
- Executive privilege
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Law
- Legislation
- Presidential powers
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 8, 2008Introduced in House
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