[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 50 (Monday, December 13, 2004)]
[Pages 2933-2934]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Signing the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2004

December 10, 2004

    Today, I have signed into law S. 2486, the ``Veterans Benefits 
Improvement Act of 2004.'' The Act modifies and extends housing, 
education, and other benefits for the Nation's veterans.
    Section 3677(d)(2)(B) of title 38, United States Code, as enacted by 
section 108 of the Act, purports to require the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs to make a recommendation

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to the Congress on whether to continue a specified pilot project beyond 
its statutory expiration date, which would require enactment of 
legislation. Section 4332 of title 38, as amended by section 202 of the 
Act, purports to require officials in the executive branch to submit 
recommendations for legislative action in certain circumstances. The 
executive branch shall implement these provisions in a manner consistent 
with the President's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary 
executive branch and to recommend for the consideration of the Congress 
such measures as the President judges necessary and expedient.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 December 10, 2004.

Note: S. 2486, approved December 10, was assigned Public Law No. 108-
454.