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Analysis: Dems oppose modest veto plan
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jan 23, 2007 12:39pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Senate is moving toward its first vote in more than a decade on the line-item veto, and it's remarkable how much has changed — particularly the positions of many of the major players.
At issue is a watered-down GOP measure that would allow a president to scrutinize spending bills he signs into law for questionable items and then submit cuts, or rescissions, to Congress for a vote. Unlike the current system, Congress couldn't simply ignore the cuts — if both Houses voted to approve them, they'd go into effect.
Put forward by Sen. Judd Gregg (news, bio, voting record), R-N.H., it's far weaker than the line-item veto power a GOP-dominated Congress gave President Clinton in 1996. Under that bill, before it was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998, Clinton's line-item vetoes automatically went into effect unless overturned by a two-thirds vote of both House and Senate.
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