Source: AP News via Yahoo News
Bush would like unprecedented power, the ability to control spending by vetoing certain items in larger bills.
This, in a nutshell, is certain death for social programs, Medicare, and education programs if he succeeds.
WASHINGTON--President Bush plans to send proposed legislation to Congress on Monday that would allow him to control spending by vetoing specific items in larger bills, a Bush administration official said.
The president, who has not vetoed any legislation during five years in office, asked Congress in his State of the Union address to give him line-item veto power.
Bush plans to announce that the proposed bill is headed to Congress during his remarks at the morning swearing-in ceremony for the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement has not been made.
President Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress got their wish in 1996, only to have the Supreme Court kill the bill saying it was unconstitutional.
President Clinton got that wish in 1996, when the new reform-minded Republican majority in the House helped pass a line-item veto law.
Two years later, the Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional because it violated the principle that Congress, and not the executive branch, holds the power of the purse.
I have to side with the high court on this one. Tightening of the country's bank account is a duty set up to be run by Congress.
Note to Congress: please do not give Halliburton and the friends of the GOP "Nigerian-scammerlike" control of our country's finances. We, too, will get promised five million dollars for the US account numbers only to be scammed over and over again. Thanks, and good day.
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