Line-Item Veto

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"It has been frequently argued -- particularly by recent Presidents, their spokespersons, and their supporters, that the President should be granted a so-called line-item veto in order to strengthen his hand in controlling federal spending. However, as we shall see, there is essentially no evidence to show that a line-item veto would have the desired effect, and several strong reasons for believing that a line-item veto would have virtually no effect on Federal spending levels.
Under the Constitution, Article I, Section 7, the President has the power to veto bills sent to him by Congress, returning the bill with a message stating why he vetoed it. The bill can then be enacted into law only by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress. (There is another form of veto, the so-called "pocket veto" in which a President simply refuses to act on..."

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