Talk:Impoundment of appropriated funds

Question...
If Richard Nixon never used the power of impoundment, how did he use it "much more than any other president?"


 * The topic doesn't say he never used it. That said, the comment is unsourced (and google doesn't find any reasonably-unbiased discussion of the topic). Tedickey (talk) 17:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Every President? Issues with Sources
Is it really true that every President from Jefferson to Nixon used? Did Harrison get a chance during his one month? William Quill (talk) 16:26, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * (A long awaited reply, but some discussion on this page is still required.) I agree that there are substantial sourcing issues with a number of this article's claims. This claim stood out to me immediately, "Politicians such as John McCain, John Kerry, Al Gore, Pat Buchanan, Jeb Hensarling, Russ Feingold, Joe Lieberman, Judd Gregg and Paul Ryan also supported the restoration of the power". The citation provided is Henninger, Daniel (6 January 2011). "Congress's Broken Windows". Wall Street Journal. The problem is "Congress's Broken Windows" is not a news article, it is a polemic-style column. While the editorial does support the claim expressed here in the wiki, the relevant passage is itself uncited. So I guess the issue is do we allow polemics as sources when those sources produce other, factual, research that is highly credible? My opinion is that while such a source can be used in addition to other  sources as worthy of consideration, it should not  serve as the only source for a claim as it is here in this wiki article. The second issue is, I cannot find a second source that backs up this claim, and finding new sources for each individual President might in fact be considered original research.
 * Long story short - does any one have sources backing up the list of presidents using or approving of this power? If not, does anyone have objections to rephrasing and removing the list? Jaydubya93 (talk) 12:04, 12 February 2014 (UTC)