one thing i didn't quite get, maybe someone could answer for me, but when the president marks items for veto and congress then votes on them, do they vote on all line-item vetoes for a bill at once? or do they vote on each line veto individually? it seems like if they have to vote on all of the line-item vetoes at once we'll end up with the same sort of back-scratching we have now.
From what I understand, the process wouldn't be for Congress to decide whether it liked the recisions. The process would be for Congress to decide whether the bill, with recisions, was better than no bill at all. If Congress wanted to have fewer recisions, it could attempt to introduce a new version of the bill, with some of the recisions but not all; this would then put the ball back into the President's court as to whether to accept it, making clear that if he rejected it the result would probably be no bill at all.