Line item veto?

[Machinehead]

Bush is calling for line item veto power which will allow him to cut wasteful government spending out of bills.

Personally I don't like Bush, and can probably count on one hand the things he has done that I agree with, but this is one of them. Congressmen from both parties have become so ridiculous with their pork barrel spending that something needs to be done. I doubt that this is the final answer to the problem, but it's definitely a start.

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[Brainwalter]

Cutting wasteful spending is great, but if they couldn't do it with a repub majority in both houses and bush as president, I don't believe they ever will.

[jman220]

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Bush is calling for line item veto power which will allow him to cut wasteful government spending out of bills.

Personally I don't like Bush, and can probably count on one hand the things he has done that I agree with, but this is one of them. Congressmen from both parties have become so ridiculous with their pork barrel spending that something needs to be done. I doubt that this is the final answer to the problem, but it's definitely a start.

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Thoughts?

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Violates separation of powers, and sup court has ruled it unconstitutional.

[pvn]

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Bush is calling for line item veto power which will allow him to cut wasteful government spending out of bills.

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If you think that's the only thing it will be used for, or even the primary thing, I've got some real estate you might be interested in.

[Copernicus]

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Bush is calling for line item veto power which will allow him to cut wasteful government spending out of bills.

Personally I don't like Bush, and can probably count on one hand the things he has done that I agree with, but this is one of them. Congressmen from both parties have become so ridiculous with their pork barrel spending that something needs to be done. I doubt that this is the final answer to the problem, but it's definitely a start.

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Thoughts?

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Violates separation of powers, and sup court has ruled it unconstitutional.

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which is one factor contributing to his use of signing statements

[andyfox]

I don't see how it could do otherwise. The executive can't remake the legislation as he sees fit.

[Copernicus]

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I don't see how it could do otherwise. The executive can't remake the legislation as he sees fit.

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Congress can always oveerride the veto line by line. I know...tough to get the overrides passed, but its the only way that I can see to stop the 11th hour pork added to a bill, that nobody reads before they vote, and gets passed inadvertantly.

[jman220]

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I don't see how it could do otherwise. The executive can't remake the legislation as he sees fit.

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Seriouosly, I really don't understand how they're even considering this, I was under the impression the Supreme Court had already ruled the line item veto unconstitutional. They'd need a constitutional amendment to re-instate it.

[ShakeZula06]

Hey I got an idea, how about he just vetos the bill and tells congress to make one with less pork?

[jman220]

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Hey I got an idea, how about he just vetos the bill and tells congress to make one with less pork?

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Because then he wouldn't get to choose which pork he wants to keep.