When President Bush signed into law the National Defence Authorization act on Monday evening, not only did he sign into law the authorization for the Webb-McCaskill wartime contracting commission, but he also issued a signing statement indicating that such a commission may interfere with his constitutional obligations. However, the Senate plans to press ahead with its plans to establish a commission that would investigate waste and fraud related to wartime contracts. Sen. Jim (D-VA) Webb delivered remarks on the Senate floor expressing his bafflement at the president's insistence that accountability would interfere with his constitutional duties. In other words, the President of the United States—who has been in charge of the conduct of this war and whose administration has been in charge of executing these contracts, supervising them, making sure that they meet the requirements of fairness in the law—is now saying that he believes that a legislative body can enact a law that he can choose to ignore because he says it would interfere with his responsibility to supervise a war as Commander-and-Chief. I am at a total loss here. I am amazed to see this kind of language employed with respect to this legislation. The Commission was put into place with broad bipartisan and bicameral support, with the intention of studying systemic problems. I would think that these are the sorts of problems that this President would want to root out.