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...question is not can it be [stopped], but will it be and when," said James O. Mason, Director of the U.S. Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control, Mason said that interrupting transmission "is the only tool we have to combat this disease...
After all, the proposal does significantly alter the balance of power between the President and Congress, placing substantial new authority in the executive. The item veto is a powerful political tool, and there is no limit to how the White House can use it. In addition to simply cutting spending, the President can use his new veto for narrow ideological purposes or as a threat to individual congressmen...
...enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. Even though this item would cost peanuts in the scheme of things, it would be among the first that a conservative President who opposes extension of the Voting Rights Act (such as Reagan) would veto. Thus, the President can legally take a tool ostensibly designed to reduce spending and use it instead to thwart the will of Congress and to kill programs to which he is ideologically opposed. Is this what we mean when we speak of representing the "national interest"? The merits of extending the Voting Rights Act are not at issue here...
...wishes, the President can use the line-item veto as a tool for rewarding, or as a weapon for punishing, individual congressmen. Used in this way, it can actually increase government spending. Congressmen have traditionally attached district-pleasing pork barrel to major spending legislation to protect their pet projects from vetoes. The President, proponents would argue, should have an item veto so that he can trim away this unnecessary spending. So far so good. But suppose that a new weapons system, which the President strongly favors, comes up. He now needs votes in Congress. Ordinarily, he would bargain, compromise, appear...
Writers Peter Gammons (baseball), Ron Borges (football), Dan Shaugnessy (basketball) and columnist Leigh Montville are among the best in the country, and the Sunday section--which includes a notes column on each major sport--is a handy procrastination tool...