To: CharlesWayneCT
The President cannot prohibit the expenditure of appropriated funds. Nixon tried it and was overturned by the Supreme Court (I think).
899 posted on
09/11/2006 6:19:15 PM PDT by
gov_bean_ counter
( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
To: gov_bean_ counter
I do remember that the money to the Taliban was basically bureaucratic autopilot and there was nothing President Bush could do about it.
931 posted on
09/11/2006 6:21:43 PM PDT by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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