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	Line-item veto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The line-item vetoes are usually subject to the possibility of legislative override as are traditional vetoes.
		The President of the United States was briefly granted this power by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, passed by Congress in order to control "pork barrel spending" that favors a particular region rather than the nation as a whole.
		In government, the line-item veto is the power of an executive to nullify or "cancel" specific provisions of a bill, usually budget appropriations, without vetoing the entire legislative package.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Line-item_veto (581 words)

	Line Item Veto
		The line item veto authority is not available to the President for use on legislation that he allows to become law without his signature or on legislation that becomes law over his veto.
		This document addresses the basic questions pertaining to the operation of the line item veto and is not intended to be an exhaustive analysis of all possible issues raised by the new law.
		The line item veto authority is only applicable to laws that contain one or more provisions falling within the definition of the three terms.
	usinfo.org /house/rule/lineveto.htm (7152 words)

	Online NewsHour: Line Item Veto Signing Ceremony
		KWAME HOLMAN: But over the years, various version of the line item veto were cast aside by the Congress, due in no small part to the efforts of Robert Byrd, the Senate's resident scholar on the Constitution and the most ardent protector of the powers of the legislative branch.
		However, shortly after the line item veto was signed into law today, a federal employees union filed a lawsuit against it, the first of what's expected to be several legal challenges.
		The line item veto passed the Senate 69 to 31.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/congress/line_item_4-9.html (550 words)

	Thr Line Item Veto
		The so-called line-item vetoes apparently conclude the budget-making process, since it appears unlikely that the Legislature will be able to summon the two-thirds vote in both houses needed to override a veto.
		Bruno said the vetoes were embarrassing, and potentially politically damaging, to legislators who had claimed credit for spending items and who are also running for re-election this year.
		The Governor's vetoes were especially striking because he began the year by proposing a 7.6 percent election-year spending increase, to $71.9 billion in the fiscal year that began April 1.
	www.academic.marist.edu /~jzry/lineitem.html (1422 words)

	Line Item Veto Act is Unconstitutional
		Third, the Court indicated that its decision rested on the narrow ground that the procedures prescribed in the Line Item Veto Act were not authorized by the Constitution’s requirements for lawmaking—bicameral passage of the identical texts of bills by the House and Senate and presentment to the President.
		Unlike the Court, he viewed the President’s exercise of line item veto authority as executing the Line Item Veto Act and not as repealing or amending specific items that were the subject of that exercise.
		Applying this test, he found that the President’s cancellation authority under the Line Item Veto Act was no broader than the discretion traditionally granted to the President in executing spending laws, such as those that appropriated “sums not exceeding” a specified amount.
	www.cusdi.org /lineitemveto.htm (2841 words)

	Line Item Veto
		That is, when you know the President is prepared to use the line item veto, that tends to operate as a deterrent against the most egregious kinds of projects that would otherwise not be funded.
		But I think it's important that the American people understand that when the line item veto was given to the President, the primary assumption was that it would take out special projects that were typically funded in big bills, and those are those big appropriations bills, none of which have come to me yet.
		Now, it may be that the use of the line item veto here will mean that it won't have to be used as much in the appropriations process, and that would please me greatly.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/New/html/19970811-2757.html (2040 words)

	The Line Item Veto
		A line item veto would partially restore the rightful authority of the executive branch that was improperly snatched away in a power grab by the post-Watergate Congress in 1974.
		As their lists of unproductive federal spending demonstrates, we need the president to have the line item veto authority; but, we also need a president who is not reluctant to wield this power.
		The item veto should be more accurately thought of as a relatively weak and partial restoration of the rightful budgetary powers of the President that were stripped from the executive branch by the 1974 Budget Act.
	www.cato.org /testimony/ct-sm032300.html (1692 words)

	Online NewsHour: Forum: The Line Item Veto Debate -- May 5, 1998
		So when President Clinton used the authority to veto 82 individual projects in the past year, a court case was quickly brought by two groups whose funding had been impacted by the use of the line-item veto.
		At issue is the line-item veto, a provision that allows the president to eliminate individual parts of spending bills without having to veto the entire legislation.
		After years of Republican support for the line-item veto, the GOP used its new-found majorities in the House and Senate to pass the measure in 1996.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/may98/veto_5-5.html (727 words)

	Will the Supreme Court Revisit the Line-Item Veto?
		Line item veto is breach of the constitutional powers given to the executive branch of the federal government.
		The problem I have with a line item veto is that a president can use it to eviscerate the party not his own.
		I knew line-item veto was a total sham when both chambers passed it by amendment level margins, then immediately appealed them to the Supreme Court, and then just shrugged rather than send an amendment to the States once it was struck down.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1572192/posts (2990 words)

	President uses line-item veto
		The Supreme Court held last month (before any line-item veto had been used) that individual Senators and Representatives could not challenge the constitutionality of the Line Item Veto Act because they lacked that standing that is required by Article III of the Constitution.
		The President acted under authority of the Line Item Veto Act which a Republican Congress passed in the spring of 1996.
		If the veto is not overridden, then the disapproval bill does not become law and the President’s original cancellations/line-item vetoes stand.
	rpc.senate.gov /~rpc/releases/1997/LINEVETO.PRZ.html (942 words)

	Line-item veto bill advances
		In addition to the line-item veto, two other measures were successfully attached to the debt ceiling extension by the Republicans in an effort to attract the support of colleagues inclined to vote against increasing the nation's borrowing authority.
		The measure, known as the line-item veto, passed the House by a vote of 232-177 after being approved by the Senate late Wednesday.
		Passage of the measure was something of a personal triumph for Rep. Bill Archer, D-Houston, who first introduced a line-item veto bill during the Nixon administration.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/03/29/veto.html (804 words)

	Clinton v. New York (Line Item Veto Case)
		Because the Line Item Veto Act requires the President to act within five days, every exercise of the cancellation power will necessarily be based on the same facts and circumstances that Congress considered, and therefore constitute a rejection of the policy choice made by Congress.
		In both actions, the plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment that the Line Item Veto Act is unconstitutional and that the particular cancellation was invalid; neither set of plaintiffs sought injunctive relief against the President.
		If the Line Item Veto Act were valid, it would authorize the President to create a different law--one whose text was not voted on by either House of Congress or presented to the President for signature.
	www.touchngo.com /lglcntr/spclint/veto.htm (18624 words)

	SOTU and Line Item Veto - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
		The Line item veto, LIV, may have been declared un-constutional but I wonder if there are 2 ways around it.
		Also, the fact that there are governors who have the power is irrelevant to a federal constitutional analysis, since the power of state governors to exercise a line-item veto depends on the wording of their state constitutions -- not the federal constitution.
		During a break, one of the judges asked me why no one is writing about President Bush's mention of the line item veto in his speech last night.
	talkleft.com /new_archives/013897.html (1963 words)

	Line Item Veto
		If he does, it would be the first application of the line item veto, since it took effect at the beginning of Mr.
		Morning Edition host Alex Chadwick talks to NPR Congressional Correspondent Brian Naylor about the prospect of line item vetoes, and which items might be targeted.
		August 8, 1997 -- President Clinton has until Monday to decide whether he will use the line item veto to strike specific provisions from the newly signed tax bill.
	www.npr.org /news/national/1997/aug/970808.veto.html (77 words)

	AllPolitics - Line-Item Veto History - Aug. 11, 1997
		So the administration was careful in picking its first line-item veto targets, looking for special-interest proposals that would be difficult to defend to taxpayers.
		WASHINGTON (Aug. 11) -- President Bill Clinton is the first president in history to use the line-item veto, authority given to him by Congress just last year.
		White House aides say most of the veto candidates in the balanced budget deal were small potatoes when it comes to wasteful spending.
	images.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1997/08/11/veto.history (577 words)

	Line-item veto returned to president
		The decision threw out a lower court's ruling that had declared invalid the line-item veto, which allows a president to cancel individual items in certain tax-benefit and spending legislation.
		The president has yet to use the line-item veto power, the court recounted.
		The veto law wrongly handed the president legislative powers, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia had ruled.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/97/06/27/scotus1.html (774 words)

	Reason: Who Gets to Not Spend Our Money?: Why a presidential line-item veto seems like a good idea, but isn't
		The line-item veto is perfectly common on the state level, with 43 governors enjoying some version of the power, which can include either a full line-item veto or a line-reduction veto.
		A presidential line-item veto would give presidents the less-benevolent power (which Clinton was thought to have tried to use at least once when he had it) to lean on individual legislators to get what they want.
		In a 6-3 vote, they decided that it violated the Presentment Clause of Article I, which gives the president but two choices when confronted with legislation that has duly passed Congress: signing or vetoing.
	www.reason.com /links/links022206.shtml (902 words)

	Line Item Veto
		The Line Item Veto Act provided detailed procedures for Congressional response to use of the cancellation authority by the President.
		The Committee issued a guide to the "Use and Application of the Line Item Veto" at the beginning of 1997.
		The Rules Committee was instrumental in developing these procedures, and continues to serve as a resource for members and observers seeking a clearer understanding of the implementation of this new law.
	www.house.gov /rules_bud/line997.htm (281 words)

	Line-Item Veto Struck Down - CBS News
		Opponents of the line-item veto argued that once a law is signed by the president, it can be changed only in the way prescribed by the Constitution for enacting a law - a congressional vote followed by the president's signature.
		The Clinton administration contended a line-item veto would not actually repeal part of a law, but would be a presidential exercise of spending authority delegated by Congress.
		Once the president has exercised a line-item veto, they contended, the final law would not be the same as the measure approved by Congress.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/06/25/national/main12583.shtml (432 words)

	line-item veto. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
		Viewing the line-item veto as an effective tactic against pork-barrel legislation, presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush unsuccessfully sought this authority, which many state governors possess, from Congress.
		Under current law the president must choose between signing or vetoing the entire budget rather than parts (items on budget lines) of it.
		The authority of an executive to veto a specific appropriation in a budget passed by a legislature.
	www.bartleby.com /59/14/lineitemveto.html (164 words)

	House of Representatives Approves Line-Item Veto
		Line-item veto proponents want to enable a chief executive to reach into, say, a gigantic appropriations bill and kill a specific spending item while approving the rest of the measure.
		As Rep. Charles W. Stenholm, D-Texas, a line-item veto backer conceded, spending proposals that are deleted by a presidential line-item veto still "can be spent on other programs" - as opposed to helping to reduce the deficit.
		Political scientists also warn that the line-item veto can lead to increased spending - particularly if a chief executive and lawmakers engage in a frenzy of vote-trading over pet projects - as has happened in many states.
	www-tech.mit.edu /Issue/V115/N1/house.01w.html (676 words)

	Line Item Veto
		Today's line-item veto legislation will change that procedure by allowing the President to single out specific projects and force Congress to vote on each of them individually.
		Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 2, the Line-Item Veto Act, which I have cosponsored in this 104th Congress and in the six previous Congresses.
		Under current law, wasteful or questionable projects or programs often find their way into law because the President cannot afford to veto the important overall legislation in which they are included.
	www.house.gov /young/press/fs020695.htm (379 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Clinton Signs Law For Line-Item Veto
		Opponents of the line-item veto say it is an extraordinary departure from the Constitution's separation of powers doctrine, and a court challenge is already underway.
		Clinton, however, argued that 43 states have some form of a line-item veto and use it responsibly, and only those projects that could never pass on their own will be affected.
		President Clinton yesterday signed into law the "line-item veto," a historic transfer of power from Congress to the White House that he said will give presidents a potent weapon against "special-interest boondoggles, tax loopholes and pure pork."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/special/budget/stories/041096.htm (964 words)

	Line Item Veto
		By passing this version of the line item veto, the administration will work with the Congress to reduce wasteful spending, reduce the budget deficit, and ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent wisely,” President Bush, March 6, 2006.
		Line item veto power gives the president the authority — as more than 40 governors now have — to guard against attempts to force unnecessary pork-b...
		Most of you are aware that the Congress did enact a line-item veto which was available to the President in 1996, but the Supreme Court struck that law down...
	www.newsbull.com /forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=2349321 (766 words)

	The Line-Item Veto
		A constitutional amendment is required for the a fully effective line-item veto to pass into law.
		The veto may be overridden by a two-thirds majority in Congress.
		Clinton, however, argued that the 43 states that have the law use the veto responsibly and that it will only affect those bills that could never pass on their own.
	www.jhu.edu /~newslett/04-12-96/News/The_Line-Item_Veto.html (374 words)

	Line-item veto may be revived=The Hill.com=
		Most states grant their governors some form of line-item veto, and last year the Arizona Supreme Court decided not to rule on a case that challenged the governor& line-item veto power.
		President Bush is seeking line-item veto power in an effort to curtail congressional spending and reduce the debt, and one senior White House adviser expressed confidence that the president can be given the authority without violating the Constitution.
		The line-item veto would be tied to deficit spending, with any savings achieved going toward debt reduction.
	www.hillnews.com /news/021004/veto.aspx (530 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / Bush wants line-item veto to be revived
		Six years after the Supreme Court took away the president's ability to veto specific parts of legislation, President Bush is asking Congress to bring back the line-item veto to let him make precision strikes against projects and tax provisions he doesn't like.
		Presidents have been saying similar words since the first line-item veto proposal was introduced in the 1870s.
		Others say the Constitution must be amended to make the line-item veto legal.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2004/11/10/bush_wants_line_item_veto_to_be_revived (750 words)

	The Line Item Veto Act After One Year
		The Line Item Veto Act in effect permits the President to look through the appropriation act to an earmark in an authorization law and cancel the amount provided in the appropriation act that is required to be spent by that authorization law.
		The Line Item Veto Act allows the President to cancel three broad types of spending or revenue provisions: dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority, items of new direct (also known as mandatory) spending, or limited tax benefits (ones for which there are only a few beneficiaries).
		The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the pending legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Line Item Veto Act in late April and is expected to rule on that challenge later this year.
	www.cbo.gov /showdoc.cfm?index=454&sequence=0 (11944 words)

	Clinton v. City of New York (1998) [97-1374]
		This case consolidates two separate challenges to the constitutionality of two cancellations, made by President William J. Clinton, under the Line Item Veto Act ("Act").
		Did the President's ability to selectively cancel individual portions of bills, under the Line Item Veto Act, violate the Presentment Clause of Article I? Conclusion
		In the first, the City of New York, two hospital associations, a hospital, and two health care unions, challenged the President's cancellation of a provision in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 which relinquished the Federal Government's ability to recoup nearly $2.6 billion in taxes levied against Medicaid providers by the State of New York.
	www.oyez.org /oyez/resource/case/1106 (282 words)

	Reconciliation & Line Item Veto
		While two provisions canceled from the tax bill (PL 105-34) were relatively minor, the one item canceled from the spending bill (PL 105-33) directly affects states, and may signal the potential use of the line item veto to shift costs to the states.
		Though the ultimate constitutional status of the new line item veto authority remains in question, its first exercise suggests that states cannot ignore this new wrinkle in the budget process.
		The Line Item Veto Act passed last year gives the president power to strike from legislation specific provisions that increase discretionary budget authority, support new direct spending, or provide tax benefits to small numbers of taxpayers.
	www.ncsl.org /Statefed/rec&appr.htm (3089 words)

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