This is good to see. The House has voted overwhelmingly to rebuke President Obama’s recent signing statement attempting to ignore international aid payments as outlined in the bill. I despise these damn signing statements. I don’t care if it’s Bush or Obama, there is no constitutional or legal basis for them. The president has two options when a bill comes to his desk, sign it, veto it. (And yes there are other maneuvers by failing to sign allowing a bill to become law as well as the pocket veto which is a debatable manuver).
The president cannot pick and choose what to enforce. We don’t have a king, we have a president subordinated to law, at least in theory.
Good for the House. Shame on Obama for using a manuever used and abused by Bush.
More details at TheHill.com.