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Originally Posted by Adept1
The president does not GET a line item veto. GW has been begging for it since before he took office.
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And he won't get it...
The
SC ruled it "unconstitutional"...
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Presidents have repeatedly asked Congress to give them a line item veto power. According to Louis Fisher in The Politics of Shared Power, Ronald Reagan said to Congress in his 1986 State of the Union address, "Tonight I ask you to give me what forty-three governors have: Give me a line-item veto this year. Give me the authority to veto waste, and I'll take the responsibility, I'll make the cuts, I'll take the heat." Bill Clinton echoed the request in his State of the Union address in 1995.
The President 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. The line-item veto was used 11 times to strike 82 items from the federal budget by President Bill Clinton.
However, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan ruled on February 12, 1998, that unilateral amendment or repeal of only parts of statutes violated the U.S. Constitution. This ruling was subsequently affirmed on June 25, 1998, by a 6-3 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Clinton v. City of New York. The case was brought by the then New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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the only option I see is this...
A president gets a bill from Congress...Instead of passing it, he vetoes it, but runs red lines through every part that's crap (pork barrel stuff, etc)...Then he PUBLICLY shows it to the press and says "If they respond to this by sending me a bill that does NOT contain the lines I went over with my red pen, then I'll sign it."...
I don't know if that's ever been done...I'm scared that if it's tried, the Congress would say "no" and have a super-majority vote which overrides the president's veto...
Shows you how much I trust Congress...