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The New Line Item Veto Proposal: This Time Its Constitutional (Mostly)

Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl

When President Bush asked Congress to enact a line item veto in his 2006 State of the Union Address, it sounded like a story we had heard before, one that didn’t have a happy ending. But it turns out that this proposed sequel differs from the 1996 Line Item Veto Act that the Supreme Court struck d…