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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060306/ap_...w_IE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
President Bush plans to send proposed legislation to Congress on Monday that would allow him to control spending by vetoing specific items in larger bills, a Bush administration official said.
The president, who has not vetoed any legislation during five years in office, asked Congress in his State of the Union address to give him line-item veto power.
Bush plans to announce that the proposed bill is headed to Congress during his remarks at the morning swearing-in ceremony for the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement has not been made.
Both Republican and Democratic presidents have sought the power to eliminate a single item in a spending or tax bill without killing the entire measure.
President Clinton got that wish in 1996, when the new reform-minded Republican majority in the House helped pass a line-item veto law.
Two years later, the Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional because it violated the principle that Congress, and not the executive branch, holds the power of the purse.
By giving the President the line item veto it will give the Executive far more power than the Constitution intended.
It would be almost impossible for Congress to actually retain control of the ability to pass laws.
Imagine Congress passed legislation on food safety and with in it was a law to test a food for a certain carcinogen. The President could just cut the line that provides funding for carrying out the test.
Now imagine a million line budget and the President vetoes 6000 lines. Now Congress must have 6000 votes on overiding every line.
Just what we need in America more Bush power to bankrupt us.
And its unconstitutional to boot.
Of course now with the Bush patsies on the Supreme Court no Presidential proposal may be un-constitutional.
President Bush plans to send proposed legislation to Congress on Monday that would allow him to control spending by vetoing specific items in larger bills, a Bush administration official said.
The president, who has not vetoed any legislation during five years in office, asked Congress in his State of the Union address to give him line-item veto power.
Bush plans to announce that the proposed bill is headed to Congress during his remarks at the morning swearing-in ceremony for the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement has not been made.
Both Republican and Democratic presidents have sought the power to eliminate a single item in a spending or tax bill without killing the entire measure.
President Clinton got that wish in 1996, when the new reform-minded Republican majority in the House helped pass a line-item veto law.
Two years later, the Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional because it violated the principle that Congress, and not the executive branch, holds the power of the purse.
By giving the President the line item veto it will give the Executive far more power than the Constitution intended.
It would be almost impossible for Congress to actually retain control of the ability to pass laws.
Imagine Congress passed legislation on food safety and with in it was a law to test a food for a certain carcinogen. The President could just cut the line that provides funding for carrying out the test.
Now imagine a million line budget and the President vetoes 6000 lines. Now Congress must have 6000 votes on overiding every line.
Just what we need in America more Bush power to bankrupt us.
And its unconstitutional to boot.
Of course now with the Bush patsies on the Supreme Court no Presidential proposal may be un-constitutional.
