On the subject of Dude and Mavdog's debate over a president owning a bill that he signs... Let's go back to the War Spending billing dubya pushed for. The bill he received had a timetable for troop withdrawals, so he vetoed it. What happenend? Did the troops just lose funding and come home? No. Congress passed a new bill, which the president signed. So, if Obama didn't like the bill with the mexican trucking thing in it, he could have vetoed it and pushed for a new bill that didn't include it. But he didn't do that.
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