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Title: Rep. Graves questions Obama's autopen signing of Patriot Act extension (O replaced by a robot)
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The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief ... autopen-in-signing-patriot-act
Published: May 28, 2011
Author: Daniel Strauss
Post Date: 2011-05-28 16:10:55 by Hondo68
Keywords: confirm that he saw the law, prior to the autopen signing, Constitutional authority of su
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Comments: 7
Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) is questioning President Obama's use of an autopen in signing an extension of the Patriot Act. Read Graves's letter below: Poster Comment: Did president O'autopen even read the Patriot Act?
The autopen is doing a better job as president than Obama, but is it legal?
In a letter Friday, Graves asks Obama to confirm that he saw the law prior to its autopen signing.
"Mr. President, I write to request your confirmation that S. 990, as passed by Congress, was presented to you prior to the autopen signing, as well as a detailed, written explanation of your Constitutional authority to assign a surrogate the responsibility of signing bills passed into law," Graves wrote.
Obama signed the bill into law late Thursday night. The autopen was used because the president was in France, meeting with G8 leaders, and the bill's provisions expired at midnight.
Graves cited Article 1 Section 7 of the Constitution, which says that the president must sign a bill to approve it into law.
"Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it," the article reads.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
You fail to realize that an American President can do anything the muther-fucker wants. What is the complaint?
I wonder if the autopen can launch the nukes.
Look at Grave' signature on his letter. There are thousands of Toms in tbis country. How do we know this was the Tom who signed his letter 'Tom?'
He's the only Tom with the guts to go up against the autopen that killed Osama bin Laden.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
I understand, but seriously shouldn't the president personally have to sign things like the Patriot Act extension? This isn't quite the same as having the autopen sign a photograph.
And why not use the current practices of a remote or digital signature that translates intent to action, and compensates for the inconvenience of being abroad. All I care about is an act that puts his mark on a legal document that makes intent into a done act. I mean, the Declaration of Independence and many documents used to be hand written. There is nothing wrong with updating ways to do things as long as it does the same thing.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: hondo68 (#1)
#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) is questioning President Obama's use of an autopen in signing an extension of the Patriot Act.
#4. To: Skip Intro (#3)
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
There are thousands of Toms in tbis country. How do we know this was the Tom who signed his letter 'Tom?'
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
Look at Grave' signature on his letter. There are thousands of Toms in tbis country. How do we know this was the Tom who signed his letter 'Tom?'
#7. To: Skip Intro (#6)
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