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Representative Henry Waxman argued that Cheney was avoiding legally required scrutiny by the National Archives and Records Administration, while Cheney's office argued that Cheney, as President of the Senate, was not part of the executive branch and hence not subject to such regulation.4 The political backlash engendered by this position5 led Cheney's office to withdraw to the more defensible position that the office of the Vice President, like the office of the President, was not an "agency" for purposes of the statute.
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Is Dick Cheney Unconstitutional?[Dagger]
The Vice Presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit."
-Vice President John Nance Garner1Twenty years ago I wouldn't have advised my worst enemy to take the Vice-Presidency. It was God's way of punishing bad campaigners, a sort of political purgatory for the also-rans. Now you'd be crazy not to take the job.-Aide to President Ronald Reagan2Many a true word is spoken in jest, we are told. More surprisingly, sometimes the truth even emerges, unsought, from the mouths of politicians and their flacks. This may be the case with regard to recent claims by Vice President Dick Cheney's office that he is, properly speaking, a "legislative ...See the full content of this document
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