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Example sentences for: line-item

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Everybody leads with President Clinton's historic use of the line-item veto.
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.
The WP reports that today President Clinton will announce his first extensive use of the new line-item veto authority to cut funding for 30 to 50 military projects worth nearly $300 million from a defense construction bill he signed last week.
The president's intent to use the line-item veto today for the first time ever leads the Washington Post and gets front-page play at the other majors.
The ruling is seen as a victory for constitutional purists and a political blow to President Clinton, who had hoped to use the threat (if not the reality) of a line-item veto as leverage in budget negotiations with Congress.