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6. "What happened to line item veto?"

It was passed under Clinton as S.4 - Line Item Veto Act of 1996, who used it much to the GOP's chagrin.

It was taken to court and struck down by the SCOTUS in 1998 -

Supreme Court Deletes Line-Item Veto

Clinton disappointed; Opponents of veto call it a victory for the Constitution


WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, June 25) -- The line-item veto is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court decided Thursday, ruling that Congress did not have the authority to hand that power to the president.
Line Item Veto

The 6-3 ruling said that the Constitution gives a president only two choices: either sign legislation or send it back to Congress. The 1996 line-item veto law allowed the president to pencil out specific spending items approved by the Congress. In his majority opinion Justice John Paul Stevens upheld a lower court's decision, concluding "the procedures authorized by the line-item veto act are not authorized by the Constitution."

If Congress wants to give the president that power, they will have to pass a constitutional amendment, Stevens said. "If there is to be a new procedure in which the president will play a different role in determining the text of what may become a law, such change must come not by legislation but through the amendment procedures set forth in Article V of the Constitution," Stevens said.

The court's ruling was a defeat for the Clinton Administration, which asked the high court to reverse the lower court's ruling. President Bill Clinton, traveling in China, said he was "deeply disappointed." Clinton was the first president to exercise the veto, which he did 82 times last year. Many of the vetoed programs are under court challenges and should now win their appeals.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20081008092502/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/06/25/scotus.lineitem/

Shrub tried to get a replacement in 2006 but that went nowhere. Russ Feingold and John McCain tried once more in 2009 and that also went nowhere.

They like their "pork". You'll have loons in the GOP vote against it and then go back to their Districts and tout how they "brought dollars back to their state for their constitutents".