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Yes, it has become customary for the President of the United States to use multiple pens to sign an important bill into law, so that several different people can have "the pen that signed the law."

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PenchantMany people have asked this question; President Barack Obama used a whopping 22 pens to sign the health-care bill into law on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Why so many pens?It is a long-held tradition for US presidents to use many pens - simply because they become historic artifacts. Some are engraved by the White House and given out as gifts to those who helped pass the law. It is rumored that president Johnson used 75 pens to sign the Civil Rights Act in 1964.Other comments by our users:The pens are then presented to the sponsors of the bill and other interested parties. All can be said to be the pen he signed the bill into law with.


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Does the U.S. president sign his full name with each of the pens?

Yes, he does, and he gives the pens to various supporters, or to specific people who were invited for the ceremony because they championed the bill he just signed. It's one of the most common (and most popular) photo opportunities, like a book signing, only presidential.