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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.
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.
Although the line-item veto had been the darling of several Republican presidents, the Wall Street Journal , after surveying Clinton's targeted cuts last week of federal subsidies to such corporations as Westinghouse and 3M, complains today that the administration's line-item decision process "can appear often arbitrary and highly vulnerable to politics."
) 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 .
In response, a major federal employees' union in New York filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the line-item veto.