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Rahm wants to defund Cheney
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Jun 25, 2007 03:14pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Jun 25, 2007 03:00pm |
| Description | House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois is threatening to defund the office of the vice president in response to revelations that Dick Cheney is locked in a dispute with the National Archives over the preservation of classified documents.
Emanuel plans to offer an amendment to a spending bill next week to defund Cheney's office. The vice president's office contends that, as president of the Senate, he and his staff are not a part of the executive branch but rather an office in the legislative branch.
"The vice president has a choice to make," Emanuel said in a statement. "If he believes his legal case, his office has no business being funded as part of the executive branch. However, if he demands executive branch funding he cannot ignore executive branch rules." |
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