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- From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: military ban legislation upcoming
- Message-ID: <lmdareINN1gp@news.bbn.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:34:06 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.183352.19650@spdcc.com> <1993Jan26.214535.26972@spdcc.com>
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- In <1993Jan26.214535.26972@spdcc.com>
- rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) comments:
- | Two things I think we need to have passed in this country
- |IMMEDIATELY:
- |
- | 1) line-item veto
- . . .
-
- I have a problem here because I don't know what the line-item veto
- proponents are asking for - they always argue that the President
- should have the same ability as the governors of <N> states.
-
- Massachusetts has the line-item veto, but that kind of veto would not
- help a President in this case. The governor can ONLY use it to veto
- individual line items in a budget or appropriations type bill. This
- power does not enable him or her to veto arbitrary sections of
- arbitrary bills. I suspect that any line-item veto currently proposed
- as amendment to the US constitution is planned to work the same way.
-
- /J
-