Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confusion in the Everglades Sir: Re your April 25 Fisherman Nixon item: TIME went overboard on that 18-ft. alligator story. There aren't any 18-ft. alligators anywhere, anytime, in Florida. So good little Republican boys and traitorous little Democratic boys are in no danger of being swallowed...
...serious scholars. (Casual visitors are tactfully shunted across the street to the Library of Congress, or to the Folger's own exhibition hall and theater.) Working 18 hours a .day, Wright has improved the library's physical plant (with air conditioning, better lighting), reorganized the 300,000-item collection. He also publishes a lighthearted Report which has delighted jaded librarians round the world...
Other critics have feared that an item veto might result in Congressional irresponsibility: representatives might allow pork-barreling to run rampant, knowing that the President would veto rediculous measures favoring exclusively sectional interests. Representatives, however, win elections on actual appropriations, not on futile attempts registered in the Record. Responsibility would ultimately rest with Congress, since any veto would have to be over-ridden by a two-thirds majority, and according to the Byrd bill, vetoed items would be reconsidered separately...
...principle of the item veto has already been accepted as constitutionally sound, for it is being used successfully in Puerto Rico and in thirty-six states. The support of such widely diverging political figures as Senator Byrd, William Douglas, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Herbert Hoover testifies to the need for a streamlined system...
...item veto, however, will need more than the support of a few stalwart individuals. Real bi-partisan cooperation will be necessary for the two-thirds majorities required for Constitutional amendment. Since many members of both parties have realized the utility of an omnibus appropriations bill, it is highly likely that Congress will pass the Consolidated General Appropriations Bill. But the legislature must realize that an omnibus bill without an item veto would mean an unbridled budget, running wild under the goadings of pressure groups that won't stop prodding...