House to Vote on Weaker Line-Item Veto Law

Eugene

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Thu Jun-22-06 01:55 PM
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House to Vote on Weaker Line-Item Veto Law

Edited on Thu Jun-22-06 01:58 PM by Eugene

House to Vote on Weaker Line-Item Veto Law

By ANDREW TAYLOR
The Associated Press
Thursday, June 22, 2006; 1:40 PM

WASHINGTON -- The House moved toward giving President Bush greater power
to strip bills of "pork barrel" spending projects Thursday in a weaker version
of the line-item veto law struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998.

The idea was advancing amid debate about lawmakers' penchant for stuffing
parochial projects into spending bills that the president must accept or reject
in their entirety. Lawmakers have rallied to support each other's projects when
challenged in recent House votes.

In a test vote, the House advanced the measure for debate, 228-196. A final vote
was to come late Thursday.

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Under the proposal, it would take a simple majority in both the House and the Senate
to approve the items over the president's objections.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062200893.html

Also: Line-Item Veto at a Glance: How It Works - AP

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Grown2Hate

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Thu Jun-22-06 02:07 PM
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1. Does this apply ONLY to spending bills?

Because if not, it sure seems like a sneaky way for them to pass ANY legislation that had Democratic amendments to the bill, and then have the Prezteldent simply veto the Democratic amendments, while keeping the rest of the bill intact. Unless I have a complete misunderstanding of the situation, which it totally possible.

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Eugene

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Thu Jun-22-06 02:19 PM
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2. Spending bills and individually targeted tax breaks

The related at-a-glance article gives a general explanation.

As for partisan gamesmanship, that trick might work once or twice,
but Congress still needs some bipartisan cooperation to get most
legislation passed. If the Democrats show backbone, they can shut
Congress down.

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Monkeyman

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Thu Jun-22-06 03:06 PM
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3. Ok this is what this is all about

Bush budget cuts the poor,veterans and other real people ,so now here's what the line veto does. Republicans vote to give more on the buget and spending bills. Tell the people in their districts see we tried to help but the President veto it. Rove's handy work

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Threedifferentones

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Thu Jun-22-06 05:31 PM
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4. What a terrible idea

The president would get the power to veto pork put in by his opponents, and to let it through when he chooses to. "Pork" is a massive popularity boost for senators in their home state; a huge part of a public's judgement of a senator is how much money he can get from the federal government to the state. This bill, as I understand it having read this clip, would give the president alot more influence over senators.

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