End of a Rubber Stamp Era?

By Dan Froomkin

Special to washingtonpost.com

Wednesday, September 21, 2005; 11:57 AMFor the past several years, Washington has been a city of rubber stamps. When President Bush asked for something, the Republican-controlled Congress by and large gave it to him. Bush, in turn, hasn't vetoed a single bill. With a very few exceptions, when things went astray in the executive branch, the legislative branch didn't get all exercised about it.

But it's possible the era of rubber stamps is coming to an end.