    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2005, Book II)]
    [November 19, 2005]
    [Pages 1746-1747]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Statement on Signing the Energy and Water Development Appropriations
    Act, 2006
    November 19, 2005

        I have signed into law H.R. 2419, the ``Energy and Water Development
    Appropriations Act, 2006.'' The Act funds programs of the Department of
    Energy, the

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    Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, the Army Corps of
    Engineers, and several other agencies, and provides funds to help
    protect the Nation's environment.
        The executive branch shall construe sections 101 and 303 of the Act
    as calling for, but not mandating, consultation with the Congress as a
    precondition to the execution of a law, as is consistent with the
    Constitution's provisions concerning the separate powers of the Congress
    to legislate and the President to execute the laws.

                                                              George W. Bush

     The White House,

     November 19, 2005.

    Note: H.R. 2419, approved November 19, was assigned Public Law No. 109-
    103. This statement was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on
    November 20. An original was not available for verification of the
    content of this statement.