A study released by then-Assistant Attorney General Walter Dellinger (1993â1996) grouped signing statements into three categories: 1  Constitutional: asserts that the law is constitutionally defective in order to guide executive agencies in limiting its implementation;e added that we aren't going to use signing statements as a way to do an end run around Congress.. On March 11, 2009, President Obama issued his first signing statement, attached to the omnibus spending bill for the second half of FY2009.
Valley of Fire State Park is located in the Mojave Desert of southern Nevada about 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas. It abuts Lake Mead National Recreation Area at the Virgin River confluence. It lies in a basin 4 miles wide by 6 miles long, 15 miles southwest of Overton, Nevada.
The Valley fire grew by nearly 3,000 acres overnight, but firefighters were able to hold the blaze at 30% containment. Winds picked Tuesday afternoon, whipping up fire activity in some parts of the burn zone, with flames towering more than 100 feet in the air in some places.