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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (58830)	11/25/2002 6:09:40 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

All kinds of unrelated stuff can wind up in bills, and routinely does. That's one reason the President got a line-item veto a few years ago. But if he vetos it, then they can filibuster the bill?? or kill it? In emergency legislation, this is not a healthy situation it would seem. C

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (58830)	11/25/2002 6:13:45 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That's one reason the President got a line-item veto a few years ago. Struck down by the US Supreme Court in 1998: washingtonpost.com Court Strikes Down Line-Item Veto Democratic Sens. Carl Levin (center) and Robert C. Byrd (right) welcomed the court's decision by displaying their personal copies of the Constitution. (AP) By Helen Dewar and Joan Biskupic Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, June 26, 1998; Page A01 The Supreme Court yesterday struck down the broad new line-item veto authority that Congress had given the president to cancel specific items in spending and tax bills. Within a couple of hours of the ruling, the law's backers announced they will try again to find a constitutional way to expand the president's powers to cut pork-barrel expenditures. In a 6 to 3 decision, the court held that the line-item veto law violates a constitutional requirement that legislation be passed by both houses of Congress and presented in its entirety to the president for signature or veto.