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FULL TEXT OF THE LATEST SIGNING STATEMENT released by the White House on 28 January 2008 For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary January 28, 2008 President Bush Signs H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 into Law Today, I have signed into law H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. The Act authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, for military construction, and for national security-related energy programs. Provisions of the Act, including sections 841, 846, 1079, and 1222, purport to impose requirements that could inhibit the President's ability to carry out his constitutional obligations to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, to protect national security, to supervise the executive branch, and to execute his authority as Commander in Chief. The executive branch shall construe such provisions in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the President. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, January 28, 2008.
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