CNN: Why does the president use a different pen when he signs the bill, and what happens to these pens afterwards?</s>BRUCE MORTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Presidents, when they sign major bills, are creating souvenirs and political capital all at once. You will see on the videotape of any of these. Presidents signing maybe one letter of his name, handing a pen to somebody. Another letter, a pen to somebody else. These are people who've helped get the legislation through. People in the Congress maybe. People from the outside. Lobbying organizations maybe. They get a chance to frame this and put it on the wall. Lots of them do. They may tell visitors, Oh, yes, the president and I worked very closely on that legislation. We were really together. The president is handing on a nice souvenir and accumulating capital so that he can go to those same people next time and say, You've helped me once before, how about this time?
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