Can States Circumvent Anti-Stimulus Guvs?

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Idea's Top Backer Says: 'I Don't Know Whether or Not It's Constitutional'
TEDDY DAVIS and ARIANE De VOGUE
March 11, 2009

South Carolina Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn is urging his state's legislature to stop Republican Gov. Mark Sanford's plan to reject $700 million in stimulus funds. The House majority whip is uncertain, however, as to whether the course he is recommending is constitutional.

"I'm not a constitutional authority, I'm not a lawyer, and I will let lawyers and constitutional scholars argue that point and that's why we have courts," Clyburn said during a Wednesday conference call with reporters ...

Sanford announced Tuesday in a letter to state legislators that he wants permission from President Obama to apply a quarter of South Carolina's stimulus money, approximately $700 million, to pay down state debt rather than to fund government programs.

If Sanford is not granted the waiver he is requesting, he plans to reject the $700 million in federal stimulus money ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7062288&page=1

[movonne]

1. I hope he turns it down...more for us...asshole