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Lawmakers Prepare New Line-Item Veto Bill for Obama to 'Test Drive'
Fox News Channel ^ | 3 March 09 | Mosheh Oinounou

Posted on 03/03/2009 6:26:04 PM PST by vivalaoink

A bipartisan group is giving the line-item veto another go at it, albeit with some key tweaks, more than a decade after the Supreme Court struck down the procedure as unconstitutional.

Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and John McCain, R-Ariz., and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Wednesday will announce the introduction of a Line-Item Veto Act, which would enable the president to strike individual items like earmarks from a spending bill before signing it.

The White House has signaled that it is open to the idea. Asked about being given that authority, spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters last week: "Well, I can assure you he'd love to take that for a test drive."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; lineitemveto; obama; veto
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1 posted on 03/03/2009 6:26:04 PM PST by vivalaoink
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To: vivalaoink

McCain strikes again.


2 posted on 03/03/2009 6:27:06 PM PST by livius
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To: livius

I can’t believe that man was our candidate..


3 posted on 03/03/2009 6:28:07 PM PST by vivalaoink
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To: vivalaoink

I have long been a champion of the Line Item Veto. But, 0bama is making me rethink my position.

At least it’s not a Line Item Add capability...


4 posted on 03/03/2009 6:29:07 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: vivalaoink

Dream on...it isn’t going anywhere. Not even a test drive.


5 posted on 03/03/2009 6:29:20 PM PST by HoosierHawk (Democrats - Looting American citizens for generations to come.)
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To: vivalaoink

I could barely stand to watch him on the news when he was our candidate. I voted for him, of course, and worked for his campaign (because even he would have been better than Barry-the-future-Stalin). But I just don’t see why he seems to feel called to do everything possible to sabotage his own party. I hope he doesn’t run for Senator again.


6 posted on 03/03/2009 6:30:21 PM PST by livius
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To: vivalaoink

Super deal for a president not ballsy enough to just veto a bill he didn’t like.
Somehow the authority and power of congress is now delegated to the president
so he can “re-write” the bill to his own liking and then get
congressional approval for it.
This simply turns the constitution on its head.


7 posted on 03/03/2009 6:31:35 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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To: livius
"I voted for him"

No, I think, like me, you really voted against Obama.

8 posted on 03/03/2009 6:32:01 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: HoosierHawk

I wish I agreed. But Barry is being given permission to do things that no other president has ever done. And if he doesn’t get it, he just goes ahead and finds some other, sneakier way of carrying out his plan.


9 posted on 03/03/2009 6:32:19 PM PST by livius
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To: Natural Law

Yes, that’s exactly it.


10 posted on 03/03/2009 6:32:55 PM PST by livius
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To: vivalaoink

Very bad idea; alters the balance of powers. Effectively lets the President re-write legislation before he passes it. I wouldn’t want Bush to have that power and it sure as heck would be a disaster now.


11 posted on 03/03/2009 6:34:04 PM PST by kamikaze2000
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Strike it down, do it again, Strike it down, do it again....


12 posted on 03/03/2009 6:37:50 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: livius
The Supreme Court will rule it unconstitutional, again.

Oblahblah isn't interested in a line item veto. He's more than happy to spend all congressional requests.

And congress would never give it to the president. Dems would hate to see it in the hands of a true conservative president, which is how it ended up in the Supreme Court decades ago.

13 posted on 03/03/2009 6:41:52 PM PST by HoosierHawk (Democrats - Looting American citizens for generations to come.)
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To: PubliusMM

If it aint PORK for his Union and Acorn buddies he will strike it out!


14 posted on 03/03/2009 6:42:18 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: vivalaoink

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15 posted on 03/03/2009 6:43:50 PM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: HoosierHawk

The reason why the SC ruled it unconstitutional was because it tied the hands of future Congresses. I guess if they passed it on a term-by-term basis, it could pass muster.


16 posted on 03/03/2009 6:52:41 PM PST by Boiling Pots (The Gov't trying to fix the economy is like the Three Stooges trying to fix your plumbing)
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To: vivalaoink; rabscuttle

“Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and John McCain, R-Ariz., and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Wednesday will announce the introduction of a Line-Item Veto Act,”

Some familiar idiots in that list.


17 posted on 03/03/2009 6:52:44 PM PST by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: PubliusMM
PubliusMM wrote:
At least it’s not a Line Item Add capability...
You just wait.

Next year, they'll amend this, adding the "Line Item Refundable Veto Credit." This will allow funds to be added to any line for any purpose. </sarcasm (I hope) >

18 posted on 03/03/2009 6:59:35 PM PST by cc2k (When less than half the voters pay taxes, it's called "taxation without representation.")
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To: vivalaoink

It will never happen, sheets Byrd will shred it.


19 posted on 03/03/2009 7:01:26 PM PST by boomop1
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To: vivalaoink
This was already settled in the Supreme Court during Reagans admin.(I think it was his admin.)...No line item veto because without everything being in it as passed, it might not have been passed.....
20 posted on 03/03/2009 8:23:15 PM PST by goat granny
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