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Which ones has he broken?

[classicman]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

Which ones has he broken?

I said they were minor, but since you asked. He broke his "five-day pledge" twice with SCHIP and the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in the same week.

Obama’s 5 p.m. signing came barely three hours after the House approved the bill, breaching Obama’s promise to have a five-day period of “sunlight before signing,” as he detailed on the campaign trail and on his website.

“The Obama-Biden campaign website states. “As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.

Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act only two days after it received final passage last week, and it wasn’t posted on the White House website until after it became law.

Politifact.com, a project of the St. Petersburg Times that tracks Obama’s campaign promises, says the five-day rule is the only pledge he has broken outright.

On the Ledbetter Act, the website wrote: “We recognize that Obama has been in office just a week, but he was very clear about his plan for a five-day comment period, and we can’t see why this one needed to be rushed. It is somewhat ironic that with the same action, Obama both keeps and breaks a campaign promise.”

A White House spokesman refused to comment on the matter.

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Originally Posted by classicman

I said they were minor, but since you asked. He broke his "five-day pledge" twice with SCHIP and the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in the same week.

OK. But I would say, since that legislation has been waiting to be signed for years, I won't be upset because he didn't wait to sign them. (I didn't even realize he had made that pledge... *scratches head*)