Some Bully Pulpit
January 3, 2007 at 10:11 pm
President George Bush, 1/3/07:
“I call on Congress to give the President the tool that 43 governors have, a line-item veto.”
President Ronald Reagan, 2/4/86:
“I ask you to give me what 43 Governors have, give me a line-item veto.”
21 years. Great progress.
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Southwest by Southeast said,
January 4, 2007 @ 9:17 am
Now, we did have some progress on this front. The President was briefly granted this power by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996. However, the United State Supreme Court in Clinton v. City of New York ruled that this power is unconstitutional.