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Subjects > News > San Francisco Chronicle April 25 2004

• Bush asserts rights to 'zone of autonomy' in the advice leading up to presidential decisions on legislative proposals
  • Bush defends secrecy as necessary to proper job performance
    
  • Constitutional separation of powers questions are raised
  • Attacks on Bush's defense, of privacy of individual giving advice on energy policy, based on mistaken interpretation of the 1972 Federal Advisory Committe Act
    • Even if interpretation are correct, Bush makes point that the law is "plainly unconstitutional" and authorizes "unwarranted intrusion" and "extreme interference" with the presidents ability to do his job.
  • Attackers claim to be defending government openness
  • Attackers try to get a possibly Bush sympathetic justice, Antonin Scalia, recused from the case
  • 947 federal advisory committees now in existence according to the GSA
    • Meetings must be in public
    • must have "fairly balanced" membership
    • must have accessible records
    • Exemptions include
      • groups "composed wholly of full-time or permanent part-time, officers or employees of the federal government"

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• Dutch Prince Gives Up Claim To Throne When Marrying Slain Drug Lords Girlfriend
• Teresa Heinz Kerry Says Mixing Funds With Children Provides Exemption From Political Disclosure
• MoveOn Links To Big Donors And Attempts To Skirt The Laws Regarding Nonprofit Endorsement Of Candidates
• Bay area sunny weather and temperatures into the 80s

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