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From: tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Line Item Veto at Presidential Level
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Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 04:32:27 EST
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>Line item veto power would, on the good side, allow
>the President to have greater control over the budget
>which has put us in DEEP debt over the years.
>
>Any ideas?

It worked reasonably well when he was Governer of California,
as I recall (even though I didn't agree with his politics).
Maybe they could try it for the rest of his term as an
experiment. He seemed to really get a kick out of using
his blue pencil. I think that was his favorite part of
the job ...

"If you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all ..."

(quote from guess which famous actor)