| "Senior administration officials" refused "invitations to testify today during a House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing examining President Bush's signing statement on the FY08 defense authorization bill." Bush's signing statement waived provisions that would ban permanent bases in Iraq and create a wartime contracting oversight commission. |
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