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Think the mud wrestling over stem cells is ugly in Washington? Wait till you get to the states. Stem-cell proponents consoled themselves after President Bush's veto with the hope that friendly state governments would pick up the funding slack, and indeed California's and five others' (see box) are trying to do just that. But the Golden State's initiative--widely seen as the one with the most promise--is proving that stem-cell politics outside the Beltway is no less nasty than inside...
...75—who is a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, the University’s second highest governing body—urged the president to “communicate [his] concerns to Congress” about bills he perceives as unconstitutional, and to make use of veto power if he deems all or part of a bill unconstitutional...
...taskforce said the existence of the president’s veto power and his duty to execute the laws mean that Bush’s use of signing statements violates his constitutional prerogatives...
...original intent of the framers was to require the president to either sign or veto a bill presented by Congress,” the report said, noting that the president vetoed his first bill just this month. “The president must defend the entire Constitution, and that includes the [stipulation] that the president ‘shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed...
...particular, he attacked the ideas that the president must either veto a bill or enforce all of its provisions—unless it is overturned by the courts—and that he must enforce a law he deems unconstitutional...