[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 46 (Monday, November 21, 2005)]
[Pages 1718-1719]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Signing the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006

November 14, 2005

    Today, I have signed into law H.R. 3057, the ``Foreign Operations, 
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006.'' The 
Act provides funds in support of United States foreign policy objectives 
abroad.

    The Executive Branch shall construe as advisory certain provisions 
of the Act that purport to direct or burden the President's 
constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations, either by 
purporting to direct the content of certain international negotiations 
and communications or by directing the Executive Branch to collaborate 
with other entities in the development of foreign policy. These 
provisions include sections 506(a), 514, 551, 561(a) and (d), 562, 
575(a), 590(b) and 593.

    The Executive Branch shall also construe certain provisions of the 
Act that purport to make consultation with the Congress a precondition 
to the execution of the law as calling for, but not mandating, such 
consultation, as is consistent with the Constitution's provisions 
concerning the separate powers of the Congress to legislate and of the 
President to execute the laws. Such provisions include sections 506(e), 
509(b), 512, 534(k), 543(b), 564(b), 576(c), 595, and provisions under 
the headings ``Transition Initiatives,'' USAID; ``Andean Counterdrug 
Initiative,'' Department of State; and ``Debt Restructuring,'' 
Department of the Treasury.

                                                George W. Bush

The White House,
November 14, 2005.

Note: H.R. 3057, approved November 14, was assigned Public Law No. 109-
102.

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