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The WP runs a second front-page line-item story suggesting that the excitement over Clinton's action is probably premature: "Clinton's use of his new veto powers simply means the old game will now require a bit more skill."
The NYT describes the line-item veto veto as "a major blow" (random choice of words?)
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.
Yesterday, the WP reports, President Clinton used his newfound line-item veto to kill a provision that would have allowed many federal workers to switch to a different pension system, boosting their annuities but costing taxpayers about $854 million over five years.
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."