From: Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 09:59:07 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Deafening silence [was Re: Need a "warning" graphic...]
Message-ID: <199602120129.UAA17517@bb.hks.net>
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Jim Ray wrote:
> Further, has anyone else noticed a deafening silence on the subject of
> a (supposedly) wished-for line-item veto power of presidents? It seems
> to me that the Dornan and CDA-type provisions of huge bills are line-
> items, aren't they?

No. Line-items refer to budgetary allocations.  If it were part of a 
budget bill that allocated monies, then a line-item veto could zap it.

Those folks really *don't* want a line-item veto now that a different 
party could use it.  I doubt it would ever be more than a rhetorical tool 
since it would limit the allocated pork... even be used as a form of 
political blackmail.

ObCrypto: None.

Rob.
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