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line-item veto

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line-i·tem veto (lntm)
n.
Authority, as of a government executive, to reject provisions of a bill individually. Also called item veto.


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Presidents do not have line-item veto authority (meaning they must accept a bill in its entirety or veto it in its entirety).
That was the holding of the Supreme Court when it found a line-item veto statute unconstitutional in 1998's Clinton v.
``It would basically give Congress the line-item veto,'' Flake said.
 
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