The line-item veto allows the president, like most state governors, to kill individual or line items out of spending bills without killing the entire bill. Until this year, the president had to accept or reject bills in their entirety, a fairly drastic course of action to get at a handful of items since the typical spending bill covers several agencies and tens of billions of dollars.
That limitation has been a growing incentive for Congress to load up bills with personal projects and non-germane spending, generally referre
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