Line-Item Veto
The day after Inauguration Day, President Clinton should send a request to Congress to enact legislation giving him the powers of the line-item veto.
Beltway insiders know that the deficit cannot be reduced, or the budget balanced, without the line-item veto. If members of Congress can still tack on pork-barrel amendments to every piece of legislation sent to the White House, the nation’s skeptical voters will immediately know that Clinton’s campaign for change is nothing more than “politics as usual.”
WAYLAND AVERY JR.
San Clemente
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