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Definition of line-item veto in US English: line-item veto(also item veto) noun The power of a president, governor, or other elected executive to reject individual provisions of a bill. Example sentencesExamples - In fiscal matters, for example, many state governments, unlike the federal government, require a balanced budget and allow the governor a line-item veto.
- In late July, he signed the new state budget and used a line-item veto to eliminate a $1 million increase to the California Arts Council.
- Mr Smith of Georgia largely ignored local concerns in favor of high-minded issues such as the line-item veto.
- He even managed to pass a line-item veto, which would have allowed the President to cut pork from the Congress's legislation, had it not been declared unconstitutional.
- I used the line-item veto 943 times and was never overridden once.
- The Governor has line-item veto over the bill, but it is uncertain what her status may be, as she reportedly is in line for a Cabinet position in the administration.
- One of the least happy days in my life was telling the President that he could not exercise an inherent line-item veto because it wasn't implicit in the Constitution.
- The Fiscal Responsibility Act is a balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out-of-control Congress.
- Would like to see a line-item veto that passed constitutional muster.
- The line-item veto caught the state's medical device industry by surprise.
Definition of line-item veto in US English: line-item veto(also item veto) noun The power of a president, governor, or other elected executive to reject individual provisions of a bill. Example sentencesExamples - I used the line-item veto 943 times and was never overridden once.
- He even managed to pass a line-item veto, which would have allowed the President to cut pork from the Congress's legislation, had it not been declared unconstitutional.
- One of the least happy days in my life was telling the President that he could not exercise an inherent line-item veto because it wasn't implicit in the Constitution.
- In late July, he signed the new state budget and used a line-item veto to eliminate a $1 million increase to the California Arts Council.
- In fiscal matters, for example, many state governments, unlike the federal government, require a balanced budget and allow the governor a line-item veto.
- Would like to see a line-item veto that passed constitutional muster.
- The Fiscal Responsibility Act is a balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out-of-control Congress.
- The line-item veto caught the state's medical device industry by surprise.
- Mr Smith of Georgia largely ignored local concerns in favor of high-minded issues such as the line-item veto.
- The Governor has line-item veto over the bill, but it is uncertain what her status may be, as she reportedly is in line for a Cabinet position in the administration.
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