Senate votes to cut funding to Cheney’s office
Senate Democrats voted Tuesday to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney’s office.
A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president’s budget until Cheney’s office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information.
At issue is a requirement that executive branch offices provide data on how much material they classify and declassify. That information is to be provided to the Information Security Oversight Office at The National Archives.
Cheney’s office, with backing from the White House, argues that the offices of the president and vice president are exempt from the order because they are not executive branch “agencies.”
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September 13th, 2007 at 9:12 am
And let this predicate some evidence to the public for the public has the right to know the knowledge the government contains, for the people were the reasoning of its presence in the first place.
dont let authority establish the truth
let truth be the authority