Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generate public response, he spent an additional $300,000 of his own money for "ballots" published in TV Guide. Viewers were encouraged to clip the 17-item ads and send them in for tabulation. Most of the questions, however, were phrased in biased fashion, virtually assuring the answers that support Perot's arguments. Those wishing to participate by phone were offered a 900 number. Computer wonks could use electronic bulletin boards...
...Constitution and the country by making a "grand bargain" between Congress and the White House. In foreign policy, the President should acknowledge and begin honoring Congress's war power. In domestic and budgetary policy, Congress should restore meaning to the President's veto power by giving him the line-item veto. Fair enough...
...line-item veto is also a matter of forcing a delinquent branch of government to take responsibility for its actions (or rather, its inactions). In this case, the guilty party is the Executive Branch. For 12 years we have been hearing from Presidents that the budget deficit is the legislature's fault because "Congress appropriates every dime." That's true. But Presidents submit an annual budget, and neither Bush nor Ronald Reagan ever came close to submitting a balanced...
...point when they say the legislature has eviscerated the President's constitutional veto power by submitting gigantic, combination-platter spending bills, often at the last minute. The President then has a Hobson's choice of signing on to the whole thing or shutting down the government. The line-item veto, which 43 Governors (including the Governor of Arkansas) have in one form or another, would give the President authority to approve or disapprove individual spending proposals. It would also, thereby, deny him the luxury of blaming Congress for excessive spending...
...genuine line-item veto would require a constitutional amendment. But Congress could achieve the same result by agreeing to submit every appropriation and tax item as a separate bill for the President to sign or veto. Senator Bill Bradley has suggested adopting this practice as a two-year experiment. The Democratic-controlled Congress should have tried this experiment back when Republicans controlled the White House. It would have been a sparkling exercise in bluff calling. Now they can grant the power to one of their own. Politically, it would be no special favor to Clinton. But if he is serious...