IIRC, it was the repubs that got the line item veto passed. Dems didn’t want it and took it the Supreme Court and it was overturned.
Ah, I think you are right. Either way, I am not too sure that Clinton ever successfully used the line item veto. Or if he did, not for very long.
I’d take from this that she wasn’t pleased with the $700B bailout—or McCain’s grandstanding support for it. That’s what lost the election for them, and she knows it.