    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2005, Book II)]
    [November 10, 2005]
    [Pages 1697-1698]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Statement on Signing the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
    Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006
    November 10, 2005

        Today, I have signed into law H.R. 2744, the ``Agriculture, Rural
    Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
    Appropriations Act, 2006.'' The Act funds important agriculture, food
    safety, natural resource and other programs of the Federal Government.
        The executive branch shall construe certain provisions of the Act
    that purport to require congressional committee approval for the
    execution of a law as calling solely for notification, as any other
    construction would be inconsistent with the principles enunciated by the
    Supreme Court of the United States in INS v. Chadha. These provisions
    include sections 705, 716, and 732, and language under the heading
    ``Food and Drug Administration, Salaries and
    Expenses.''
        The executive branch shall construe section 715, which purports to
    regulate thetransmission of information by employees at the Department
    of Agriculture, in a manner consistent with the President's
    constitutional authority to faithfully execute the laws and to supervise
    the unitary executive branch.
        The executive branch shall construe section 719, which purports to
    regulate the transmittal of legislative recommendations by executive
    branch officials to the Congress, in a manner consistent with the
    President's constitutional authority to recommend such measures to the
    Congress as he deems necessary and expedient.
        Several provisions of the bill relate to race or ethnicity. The
    executive branch shall construe such provisions in a manner consistent
    with the requirement that the Federal Government afford equal protection
    of the laws under the Due Process

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    Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

                                                              George W. Bush

     The White House,

     November 10, 2005.

    Note: H.R. 2744, approved November 10, was assigned Public Law No. 109-
    97.