Does Line Item Veto Still Exist?

Does Line Item Veto Still Exist?

Forty-four of the fifty U.S. states give their governors some form of line-item veto power; Indiana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Vermont are the exceptions. The Mayor of Washington, D.C. also has this power.

Is there a federal line-item veto?

Federal government

Intended to control "pork barrel spending", the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 was held to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1998 ruling in Clinton v. City of New York. ... Before the ruling, President Clinton applied the line-item veto to the federal budget 82 times.

What happened to the Line Item Veto Act of 1996?

104–130 (text) (pdf) was a federal law of the United States that granted the President the power to line-item veto budget bills passed by Congress, but its effect was brief as the act was soon ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Clinton v. City of New York.

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