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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (9692)	3/20/2009 4:05:38 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

"I think what they are saying is the spending items that President doesn't like, have to be voted on by the whole Congress in an up/down vote instead of riding on the coatails of the rest of the basic spending bill." That's right. BOTH of the recently re-introduced Line Item Veto bills (including the one John McCain is backing) use that stratagem to get around what the Supreme Court held was unconstitutional in the earlier law that was over-turned. (And... most legal scholars - at least the ones I've read - seem to think that this time what is being proposed may fly, that it might be supported by the Courts as constitutional.) The Congress can still over-turn the President's vetoed line items --- it's just that they must overturn the President's stricken-out items AS A WHOLE, all together... and not individually. Presumably this would be a high-visibility vote, with the public paying very close attention... and not something like the various earmark-sponsors might prefer (in the dark of the night).