CAPITOL HILL
A powerful Republican committee chairman says he'll have a bill ready by the end of the week allowing Congress to sue President Bush in federal court.
The flap is over the president's signing statements. In those statements, Bush says he reserves the right to revise, interpret or disregard laws on national security and constitutional grounds.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter says the bill will "authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional."
Specter's announcement comes on the same day that an American Bar Association task force concluded that by attaching conditions to legislation, the president has sidestepped his constitutional duty to either sign a bill, veto it, or take no action.
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