The President can also issue a signing statements with a bill that he has signed.

The legal status of such signing statements remains unclear, but they are no longer novel.

The first president to issue a signing statement was James Monroe.

The signing statement maintained that this was within the constitutional authority of the president.

Bush, however, has issued 800 signing statements over a 5 period during his term.

The signing statements are not even all about national security.

The founding fathers never conceived of anything like a signing statement.

The next year, he said there should be increased use of presidential signing statements.

A bipartisan panel said he had used such "signing statements" far more than his predecessors.

Q But that's a signing statement that says this is how you're interpreting the law.