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The LAT and NYT emphasize Clinton's announcement that the budget deficit for this fiscal year will be a 23-year low of $37 billion, while USAT chooses to stress his comment that he expects to exercise the line-item veto (a presidential first) on the budget and tax bills he just signed.
Last week President Clinton announced his intent to use the line-item veto on some provisions of the budget and tax legislation just enacted, but by today's accounts, several days of scrutiny revealed that this was easier said than done--the WP reports, for instance, that a tax break concerning employee stock ownership plans and another concerning Amtrak were dropped because they had been agreed to during the budget negotiations with Congress.
In a separate action, New York City also filed a similar suit yesterday against a previous Clinton line-item move.
) The unanimous ruling that the Communications Decency Act (banning smut on the Internet) is unconstitutional makes page one of the two Times es and the Post . But the third decision--rejecting a challenge to the line-item veto--didn't even rate a front-page teaser in the NYT .
A constitutionally strong governor, such as New York's, can both veto bills and apply a line-item veto to portions of measures he disfavors.