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...urging of President Reagan, Congress is presently flirting with the line-item veto--the cure, we are told, to all our budgetary woes. It appears, after all, to be a simple remedy to a complex problem. As deficits continue and as budget deadlocks seem to recur annually, congressmen from both parties are starting to wave their hands, yearning for the White House to assume an additional power--and take away from them a frightful responsibility...
However, despite its simplicity, the line-item veto promises less, both to Congress and to the cause of a balanced budget, than the panacea it has been made out to be. It is too superficial and has too many potential side effects to cure our budgets' ills. Congress should defer to its better judgement and resist this instance of political quackery...
Proponents of the line-item veto argue persuasively that only the President completely represents the national interest. Congress, they note, has on more than one occasion produced a budget bristling with a hodge-podge of local and special interest-pleasing items. No dispute so far. But will the proposed solution, the line-item veto, solve the problem which proponents cite, or might the consequences be more drastic than proponents tell...
Twice last week Ronald Reagan employed the bold but risky political strategy of pre-emptive compromise. Faced with the all but certain passage of bills that he had previously threatened to veto, the President sought to outflank Congress with his own initiatives on South Africa and international trade. His political maneuvering served only to heighten the partisan conflict on Capitol Hill. "This is no longer an issue of what's good for South Africa," declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. "It's a raw political issue. South Africa is secondary." As for new trade legislation, a top White House aide...
...back on the part of the President," Dole said, then he would personally reintroduce the bill and support it. The call to bring the sanctions to a vote was defeated 57 to 41. But Cranston vowed to try to attach the measure to legislation that Reagan could not easily veto, like an upcoming bill that would raise the federal debt ceiling...