Charlie Savage for the Boston GLobe reports that Arlen Specter "will hold an oversight hearing into President Bush's assertion that he has the power to bypass more than 750 laws enacted over the past five years."
Specter said he plans to hold the hearing in June. He said he intends to call administration officials to explain and defend the president's claims of authority, as well to invite constitutional scholars to testify on whether Bush has overstepped the boundaries of his power.
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Specter said. ''There may as well soon not be a Congress… . And I think that most members don't understand what's happening."
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