Durbin and Waxman, a pair of tools, seem to think this is going to go their way?
Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president’s budget until Cheney’s office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information.
At issue is a requirement that executive branch offices provide data on how much material they classify and declassify. That information is to be provided to the Information Security Oversight Office at The National Archives.
Cheney’s office, with backing from the White House, argues that the offices of the president and vice president are exempt from the order because they are not executive branch “agencies.”
The funding cut came as the appropriations panel approved 5-4 along party lines a measure funding White House operations, the Treasury Department and many smaller agencies.
Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said Cheney’s office was flouting requirements that it comply with the reporting requirements on classified information.
“Neither Mr. Cheney or his staff is above the law or the Constitution,” Durbin said. “For the vice president to believe that he has no responsibility to meet this requirement of the law is a dereliction of duty.”
I’m wondering what part of the COTUS, they are using….
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Makes sense to me. He claimed he is not part of the executive branch and thus has not accountable to ANYONE. No, not one more dime of my tax money do I want to see going to a rogue offices activities.
That is not what he claimed at all….here it is again…read it slowly:
Cheney’s office, with backing from the White House, argues that the offices of the president and vice president are exempt from the order because they are not executive branch “agencies.â€
1, Tofu, if it makes sense to you, that is the definition of nonsense!
7- You have to do better on a rebuttal than that. Can you first deal with all the spamming posts though?
There are o spamming posts, those are trackbacks
16- Um, okay, well can you group them and make them appear elsewhere like they used to and not mish-mashed in the comments as they are now?
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See, this new system sucks. What does Michael Moore have to do with anything regarding the Dems and Cheney? Nothing. Get these ‘trackbacks’ out of our topic discussion. It’s SPAM, as I said before! Just blog whoring…
No it isn’t spam, it is a trackback from a linkfest and it is staying!
30- Just saying, as those trackbacks do not participate int he topic discussion, they would be considered ‘spam’. When those trackbacks were separated as before, it left our discussions insulated from the completely unrelated content.
They are distracting.