Between the time when President Clinton was in office, but it did not take effect until President George W. Bush came in and it doubled the salary for President Bush but not President Clinton. How do you, by statute, change, even for a matter of days, a Presidential salary? Doesn't it violate article 2 of the Constitution?
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