News you probably didn't hear about, House votes overwhelmingly against Executive Order 13233

[ck4829]

Executive Order 13233 allows Presidents and even former Presidents to just declare their files classified.

Congress voted on the Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007, which establishes "procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records."

I didn't even hear about this? Did you?

How did Congress vote?

333-93

That's veto-proof!

The full Senate hasn't voted on it yet, but it did pass out of committee with a unanimous vote.

Why isn't the 'liberal' media reporting the good news out of Congress?

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1255

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Maybe the "liberal" media doesn't think we should hear this?

That story is good news!

Maybe the Congress is finally growing some backbone!

Veto-proof is the way to go...

[Quantess]

5. Or maybe the MSM thinks the public won't understand it,

and that we probably won't care, anyway, since there are no missing blonde pregnant women in this story.

[Clear Blue Sky]

2. Gotta get through the linguine spined senators...

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Two words: signing statement

Will Congress and the Senate have to pass the same bill every four years?

[cui bono]

4. So sad yet so true.

What's the workaround on those? Pass a law against signing statements and he signs it with a signing statement attached.

Sheesh.

[hootinholler]

8. No. The Supremes actually declared a signing statement to be akin to a line item veto and therefore

Unconstitutional if they actually attempt to change the law.

-Hoot

[elizfeelinggreat]

6. Thank You

for telling us this!

[sharesunited]

7. Wikipedia says that the measure has not

been allowed to come up for a floor vote in the Senate because a hold has been put on it by Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky.

[Senator]

9. Without Impeachment, Congress Is Irrelevant

They are literally impotent to do anything under "Rule By Signing Statement."

No, there are no court ruling that can make this regime do anything it doesn't want to do.

Only impeachment can make an impression on the public/electorate.

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