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Spending: Bush Proposes Bill To Give Him Line-Item Veto 3/13/2006

By Tom Ichniowski

President Bush proposed legislation March 6 to let him veto individual provisions in legislation. The White House said a line-item veto would help cut use of “earmarks,” which often are for construction projects. In 1998 the Supreme Court found a line-item veto law unconstitutional. White House Budget Director Joshua Bolten says the plan avoids that by putting rescissions into separate bills requiring congressional approval.