Bush Back at Work after Colonoscopy

World | July 22, 2007, Sunday // 00:00

Doctors removed five small polyps from US President George Bush's colon on Saturday after he temporarily transferred the powers of his office for two hours to vice-president Dick Cheney.

The polyps, or growths in his large intestine, were found during a routine colon cancer scan. They all measured less than a centimetre and none "appeared worrisome", White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said.

Bush invoked the disability clause of the constitution at 1116 GMT and transferred his authority to Cheney, who was at his home on the Chesapeake Bay in St Michaels, Maryland, about 50 kilometres east of Washington. Nothing occurred that required Cheney to take official action during the transfer of power, Stanzel said

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