Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the president is already granted a general veto power by the Constitution, the item veto is unnecessary. With the authority he already has, a shrewd president can expose legislative big spenders and cut out the fat on spending bills--without completely realigning the relationship between the executive and legislative branches...
...omnibus appropriations package is too wasteful, the president can pick out the most superfluous expenditures and veto the entire bill because of them. Then he could promise to sign the same bill into law, as long as the offensive appropriations were excluded...
Framing the debate in this way, the president could force Congress into the court of public opinion. With a two-thirds majority, Congress could override his veto and pass the original appropriations bill, which would appear to the public as sanctioning wasteful spending. Or they could accept his veto and pass the same bill without those expenditures, as the president had proposed...
Although Congress could override president's veto if his demands were unfair, it is unlikely that two-thirds of Congress would be willing to vote for a package that appeared wasteful unless they could justify all of the expenditures. Threatened with a shut-down of the government because no funds had been appropriated, Congress would have to pass the bill the president wanted...
Because Reagan has not used his general veto power effectively, the next president will have...